Autumnal-reflection beaver-blogging!

(A beaver in Rock Creek, as seen from the Kensington Parkway bridge, Saturday, October 31, 2015.)

Fall-blooming camellia-blogging, part II!

Autumn Weekend Now-and-Then Beaver Blogging! [featuring ear-tagged beaver-pairs in drop-crates]

Yesterday morning, at the Kensington Parkway bridge over Rock Creek, I saw a beaver on the downstream side.

It swam under the bridge, so I crossed, and saw it emerge on the upstream side.

I watched it for a while.

And then it swam away upstream.

This morning, courtesy of my sister and the Washington Post, I saw ear-tagged beaver-pairs in drop-crates. And you can too:

Fall-blooming camellia-blogging!

Won't you please come in?

Views from the bridge.

Over this three-day Labor Day weekend, I walked each morning to the Kensington Parkway bridge over Rock Creek, with a telephoto zoom lens on a full-frame digital SLR.


Saturday morning:

Sunday morning:

Monday morning: 

(click any image for full-screen)

Not once but twice last week...

Not once but twice last week, in the early evening, I suddenly saw a beaver swimming towards me; by the time I could retrieve my camera, all I could capture was the back of the beaver's head, moving away...

Above the mandala on the floor, is the sky.

National Museum of the American Indian,
Washington, D.C., 12/13/14,
FujiFilm X100S, B&W, 180° panorama mode
(click image for full-screen).

Heraclitus, revisited. (Or, sorry I haven't written lately; what's been happening this month?)

I've written recently about Heraclitus, and my goal of taking photos of Bucky that are distinct.

Sometimes, though, like when he stands in the window-light at the top of the stairs and looks into my portrait lens, images from different days can be pretty damn similar:

(19 October 2014)

(27 October 2014)

So, it was nice to get a chance (at bedtime) to snap a shot that is different:

(25 October 2014)

Thanks, Bucky.

(Click on any image for full-screen.)

Cubist, but operational.

Last night, a train pulled into the Forest Glen Metro station just as I was rotating my iPhone to take a 180-degree "panoramic" photograph of the platform:

Here's a closeup of the train:

I boarded that train and can report that in spite of its shattered appearance, it ran just fine.

Okay, one more crop:

(Click any image for full-screen view.)

Guess who came by as I was shooting the Morning Glories?

"...close to music..."

"The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. One might argue that photography is as close to music as to painting."

- John Berger, from "Understanding a Photograph" (1968).

Bucky, December 2010. (Click image for full-screen.)

(Reprise.)

Bucky was back at the top of the stairs.

8/31/2014 (click image for full-screen)

"OAK, RED"

(seen this morning in Rock Creek Park)

The Bucky Variations*.

Heraclitus said that "Everything changes and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream."

If, however, you take several photographs of the same stream – or dog – they may not look all that different.

But what if you use different lenses?

Here is Bucky standing at the top of the stairs, as seen through three different lenses** (click any image for full-screen):

Fuji X100S***, 5/28/14.

Nikkor 105 mm f/2 "defocus control" lens****, 8/9/14

Lensbaby LM-10*****, 8/12/14.

And there you have it: Three different views of Bucky at the top of the stairs.

I admit that these may not reflect three different ways of being, a la Heraclitus, but instead may depict three different ways of seeing, a la John Berger. But, for most of us, ways of seeing are ways of being. And, as for me, I am grateful to Bucky, who has taught me new ways of being, and of seeing.


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        *  With footnotes.
     **   And cameras.
   ***   Built-in 23 mm f/2 lens (35 mm equivalent focal length = 35 mm).
 ****  On a full-frame Nikon digital SLR.
***** On an iPhone.

Late-Summer Indoor Black&White Dog-Blogging!

Bucky, 8/17/14 (click image for full-screen)

Late-Summer Dog-Blogging!

Bucky, yesterday morning. Click image for full-screen.

Every garden should have one!

Sentinel hummingbird, backyard, 7/30/14.
Click image for full-screen.

Down-in-Florida Summertime Flower-Blogging!

Hibiscus in Palm Isles, 7/26/14.
Fuji X100S, f/8, macro mode, Velvia film simulation.
Click image for full-screen.

Forget about the Man in the Moon.

(Bucky, 7/23/2014; click image for full-screen)