Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Another garden ornament in our friend’s garden. I liked the contrast between the light colored swan and the dark jade plant. Also the elegant lines of the swan (I suppose swans are pretty much by definition elegant. At least I’ve never seen one that wasn’t). The contrast between the rough textures of the swan and the smoothness of the plant also appealed to me.
I was sitting on our dock with our dog Harley when suddenly he jumped up and ran off. I spotted him on the grass behind a flower bed trying to get through the trees along the side of our property. There’s also a fence so I didn’t think he’d succeed. I was wrong though. He managed to find a small gap between the fence and a large rock overlooking the lake. And there he sat, on top of the rock, for a long time – watching the action on the lake.
Our friend has a lovely pond in his back garden. One day as I was visiting I looked in the direction of the pond and saw this stone frog peeping out from behind a rock. Seemed to be worth a picture.
A group of musicians playing at a local community event. Above: John Cohen founder member of the New Lost City Ramblers and famous for his music, art, movies and photographs including iconic photographs of Bob Dylan.
Cohen’s hands on his mandolin.
Fiddler. It looks as if this shot was posed, but it wasn’t. He was actually playing at the time and I happened to catch him looking directly at the camera.
Another fiddler. Great expression!
It was quite difficult to get a decent picture of this banjo player, which was a pity as I’ve always been fond of the banjo. She looked down a long – I don’t know if this was because she knew I was taking pictures and didn’t want to be photographed, or whether this was just her style of playing.
Somehow I missed the other musician: a string bass player.
I was walking around an old, deconsecrated church when I came across a room at the rear. Opposite the room was a door to the outside. It was a bright, sunny day and the sunlight was streaming into the room.