Friday, October 6, 2006

Any guesses?

Harvest moon tonight. Wonder how many posts or photos will be tagged harvestmoon by tomorrow. Hmm...

Visiblogs

I've put up piles of pictures at Flickr and tabblos at Tabblo (disclosure).

These include Flying from Denver to Santa Barbara, Winter soltice shots from our old house, Santa Barbara's record-best sunset (which shot well in spite of a substandard camera), a sunset last week in Santa Barbara, a flight from Boston to San Francisco that features some great shots of mountains in Utah, Refugio Sunset, shot from near the old Reagan Ranch. And a lot of other stuff.

A lot of these amount to blog posts of sorts. That's certainly the case with the text you'll find on the tabblos and under many of the Flickr shots.

I realized recently, that my nature photography is less about beauty than about self-education. Each shot is a study. I'm learning something about my subject, and usually long after I've done the shooting. This is especially true of my shots of the West.

For example, I learned much more about the basin & range provinces we call Nevada and Utah on this last trip back from Boston. When I get a chance I'll write more about that. Right now I have too much work to do, and I'm flying to Copenhagen the day after tomorrow. Lots to prepare for.