#YearInReview: March, 2021

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There are no “ordinary” birds. That’s the conclusion I have come to just a couple years into my birding-with-a-camera career. For when I manage to get a decent photo that enables me to see and dwell on details of color, pattern, feather texture, beak shape, eye treatment… all of it, I am astonished every time This photo is from a March 2021 birding-by-camera-and-kayak excursion on Black Bayou Lake. It’s a lot of fun and you can kind of sneak up on birds in a kayak better than on foot. I saw coots and a double-crested cormorant on the water. Unusual…

#YearInReview: February, 2021

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Hooboy, February last year must have been a humdinger. Going through my archive, I find just two photography outings and neither of them amounted to much. I was at Camp Hardtner, but for a meeting and as I was leaving, I stopped in my car on the road to take 6 shots of a flock of robins in the trees along Fish Creek at the edge of camp. Mostly, they showed me their behinds. And I visited Black Bayou Lake NWR once and made about 10 shots, none of which are worthy of standing for the month of February. But…

#YearInReview: January, 2021

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Where has the time gone? I usually do my #YearInReview in December, making the 12th post on December 31, that is after all of my shooting done for the year. But… late is better than never, so here goes… In January of 2021, I visited a couple of areas in the Kisatchie National Forest down in Vernon Parish, but spent more time at Black Bayou Lake NWR, that treasure of great value practically in my back yard. I was there the 17th, exactly one year and two days ago. It was late afternoon and I was there only a short…

Local Love

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It is especially fun and gratifying to offer local friends local opportunities to see my work on a gallery wall! Two such opportunities are coming up real soon. January 25, 5-7 p.m. – The 6th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition will open with a reception and juror’s talk in Room 103 of the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center, Louisiana Tech University. The TVAC is at 1 Mayfield Ave.* Peace in the Time of Pandemic has been in several national juried shows and was selected “Best Photo” in the habitat category by participants in Louisiana Master Naturalist Association’s 2021 Rendezvous….

New @ Ruston Artisans

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So today I learned a new word: “ambedo.” It means a kind of “trance” induced by focusing on “vivid sensory details,” said to be “soaking in the experience of being alive” and “done purely for its own sake.” Thanks to my friend Amy Ouchley for posting that on Facebook! I actually do it quite a lot, and although I take photographs of many of those details in which I become absorbed, the photography is kind of secondary to the experience of being captivated by those sensory details. Does anyone else see what I see? Can I photograph this in such…