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Making a House Call
Brooke and I took a short trip up to Garfield Park Conservatory today and what a nice break from the January chill. While everything outside is gray everything inside was sure green, except the fish. There were a lot of others that thought this was a good idea too. If it wasn’t for the required… Continue reading
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Visiting The Park
From Garfield Park Conservatory. What a great place to visit this time of year. So much green and little surprises. Continue reading
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Let Her Rip, Granny
What’s the story here? Any guesses? Continue reading
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That Little Doggie in the Window.
I’m not sure who is more entertained by the window. Continue reading
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Cat Nap
My grand kitty stayed with us over the holidays… he’s warming up to me, and he’s not running off every time I come into the room. Continue reading
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Packin’ It In.
Time to get the new year started with new ways…. just to be clear they’re not mine but I bet someone was pissed. Continue reading
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Air Injection
More school visits. This is from VU’s Center for the Arts, it’s one of the practice rooms for the orchestra. This building houses all the arts at VU, including the photography dept. Nice digs…. When I attended VU in the 80s, my home base for photography was in Baldwin Hall on the old campus. … Continue reading
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Halls of Knowledge
Visit Day at WMU. I love college architecture. During my many campus visits through the Midwest, I find it’s a mix of the new, the old, and “it didn’t age well.” Continue reading
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VU visit day.
Checking out the engineering department at Valparaiso Univ. It’s fun seeing the machining room and other labs. It’s such interesting stuff all over. Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955