Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I came across this delicate blue flower growing on top of a stone gatepost belonging to one of my neighbors. I also liked the rusty old metal gate in the second picture.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XF 55-200mm f3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Wave Hill has some impressive garden with the odd piece of garden art scattered around. There’s also a large greenhouse, which unfortunately we didn’t have time to visit. Above: Swallowed by Nature, by Natalie Collette Wood, 2018.
A nearby sign reads:
“Natalie Collette Wood
Swallowed by Nature, 2018
Chicken wire, repurposed furniture, plants
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of the Artist
For over a decade, Natalie Collette Wood has been reflecting on the intersections among the passage of time, nature and the built environment. Through sculpture, collage and painting, Wood renders interiors, building facades and cityscapes as blurred spaces that visually bleed into and merge with nature. Within these dreamlike scenes, Wood probes questions about scale and permanence.
Inspired by her time kayaking on the Bronx River where human detritus, like care tires displayed here, is regularly discarded, Wood began the think about urban spaces and their relationship to natural cycles of growth, decay and change. To process and accept what she sees as inevitable, Wood transforms common domestic objects until they are almost unrecognizable. In this case, a dining room table and chairs are engulfed by hundreds of succulents that require little to no human maintenance to thrive. Uncanny and sublime ‘Swallowed by Nature’ visualizes what happens when nature is left to reclaim our built environment and “joins the dinner table”.
‘Swallowed by Nature’ is part of ‘Eco-Urgency: Now or Never’, currently on view in Glyndor Gallery.”
Pictures taken with a Fuji X-E3 with Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II and Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 18mm f2 R
Jasmine and my brother-in-law, Roy recently paid me a visit and September 16 we went up to the lake to see the memorial garden where two roses we donated had been planted and a stone laid bearing Eirah’s name. We were pleasantly surprised to see that one of the roses was blooming.
Various camera and lens combinations.
One of the great joys of macro photography is that sometimes you see something which is not visible to the naked eye. I was walking around with a camera and a macro lens and not really finding any interesting subjects. Just as I was about to head off home I came across a small thistle flower, maybe 1/2 inch across. As I got close to it with the macro lens I noticed that it was teeming with these tiny ants.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta 50mm f2.8 Macro lens
While not entirely sure I suspect it’s a Common Sow Thistle.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta 50mm f2.8 Macro lens