Making a choice between photography and dog ownership
Why I won’t get a dog.
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Read More2018 was a year when I came back to nature photography with a vengeance. Here’s a retrospective of my monthly favourite photos since May.
Read MoreThis is a restrospective review on my favourite book of 2019. The Soul of Place (2015) by Linda Lappin has transformed the way I experience and write about nature.
Read MoreThese four images came from only 15 minutes in the woods with a camera phone. Practically everyone has a tool for creating works of art.
Read MoreA sestina about panpsychism
…My arms reach around the grey beech.
Its smooth, cool bark always
draws me bodily to thrumming silence.
It penetrates truths humanity must dread.
Rootlets thread their countless neural lines
to a sleeping god’s dream…
After a painful arm condition, I’m grateful to be able to express myself in writing and photography.
Read MoreSimple pleasures: here are some of mine. What are yours?
Read MoreThis is a taste experience I won’t soon forget.
Read MorePhotography can be both a useful tool and a hindrance in observing nature.
Read MoreCuriosity can be an anodyne for our inner resistance to change, or new ideas. It can also get us into trouble. Macro photography illustrates the value and risk of curiosity.
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