iPhone Photography

TREE SERIES

2012-02-05T18:07:00.001-08:00

Part of Tree Series which I am always working on. Trees have so much character and offer me a sense of well-being and peace when I walk amongst them or even just sit and study their infinite variety of structure. They always seem to speak to me in some quiet way. This tree in particular always makes me stare. It's beautiful in its starkness, regardless of its missing half.

1. Wholeness Deleted
2. Blue Light Night

posted via iPhone 4S

MIST and BLUE and YOU SOMEWHERE

2012-02-05T07:11:00.001-08:00

posted via iPhone 4S

RAIN DAY - DOWNTOWN

2012-02-05T05:45:00.001-08:00

1. Sitting in the Rain
2. Umbrella Required
3. Light it Up

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posted via iPhone 4S

ABSTRACT SERIES

2012-01-30T20:43:00.001-08:00

Dreamfield : Trees with Eyes, Lightning

ABSTRACT SERIES

2012-01-30T20:36:00.001-08:00

Firestorm in My Mind

TRAINS

2011-12-27T14:54:00.001-08:00

"Flying By" ::

This train was coming through Tupelo between Spring St. and S.Green St. and moving very fast!
Captured with iPhone 4S.

ORGANIZED CHAOS . . .

2011-12-23T06:50:00.001-08:00

and the dynamics of city structures can silently speak or shout their possibilities. We must look and listen in order to receive.

BEDSIDE LANDSCAPE

2011-08-15T11:12:00.000-07:00

LIGHT'S UNEXPECTED EFFECTS

2011-08-08T20:12:00.000-07:00

The Light of Storms

Light can do many things to us and for us. It can speak of memories, or it can provoke images in our minds of what might have been or it can just show us how beautiful the world around us really is.

Chair and Rose Are There, But You Are Not (In Memory of Jimmy Pitts)

The Night of Two Moons

Evening on the Patio Without You

How Many Conversations Lost

Factory in Mill Town

Through the Window into Thoughts

Light of Spirits Past

SKYBRIDGE TO MY DREAM

2011-08-08T20:06:00.000-07:00

The Rebuilt Ocean Springs, MS Bridge to Biloxi - post Katrina. It's been my dream to live there in Ocean Springs after my first visit in November 2004.

COLLAGE :: ABSTRACTION

2011-08-08T19:26:00.000-07:00

Park Heights Grill

Two Cups in Waiting

Coffee with You

Tiled Columns - Movement in Disorder

COLLAGE :: ABSTRACTION

2011-08-06T19:32:00.000-07:00

Park Heights Restaurant

The Lights Were Magical

Inside Outside

Collage and abstraction are my favorite way of working with the iPhone and apps. I feel this is the most challenging process with much thought and planning involved... not just "another appd" image. In the end, hopefully I have created a most rewarding image through an evolutionary process.
[Posted via iPhone]

TREE OF LIFE

2011-08-06T19:11:00.000-07:00

Womb

CLEMATIS POD

2011-08-06T18:54:00.000-07:00

The Daily Pic on Pixels

PROBE DATA COMPONENTS :: FOR D-2

2011-06-11T20:37:00.000-07:00

Computer chips on right are equipped with data-gathering abilities built within each chip ( which are really green). These will gather critical information to help with TVN's research into tornadoes.

The chips go inside of the specially designed foam "bottle" shape (which is really a dark pinkish color).

From there, each probe will be out-fitted with a small parachute, placed inside of the canon system, and then shot upwards from inside of the Dominator-2 into a specific area of a tornado forming system.

GPS and radio will help the team find the probes and gather the much desired data.

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Photo shot in Tupelo, MS May 16, 2011 at The Renasant Center for Ideas: http://www.cdfms.org/m/renasant/index.asp

Many thanks to Darryl Winstead
for taking time from his extremely busy day, for his explanations, courtesy, and understanding of my great love of, and interest in, weather and the Dominator's techie gadgetry!

THE ORIGINAL DOMINATOR

2011-06-10T06:30:00.000-07:00

My personal experiences in getting to acturally see and then ride in The Dominator influenced me to take the vehicle to a dreamy state... a sort of Magical Mystery Chase within my mind.

Dreaming the Chase I

Dreaming the Chase II

Sum of Parts

Balls of Titanium (to Reed from the infamous Tim Samaras)

Canon System in Dream Mode

Canon system is mounted outside - white tubes are located on back passenger side.

Tim Samaras

ABSTRACTING THE D-2 ::

2011-06-10T05:03:00.000-07:00

STORM CHASERS :: GIZMOS & GADGETRY

Canon in The Dominator

Excitement, pressure, emotions, expectations...all caught up in firing the probe from the canon.

(White tube is the canon inside of Dominator 2)

Door Frame Section I

Door Frame Section II

The Electricity of the Mind Flows Most Beautifully (Inside the D-2)

Simple Importance

STORM CHASERS, Reed Timmer and Crew (http://www.tornadovideos.net ) and their amazing new in-progress chase vehicle, D-2, came here to my town of Tupelo to be outfitted with high-tech gadgetry and gizmos.

My third visit to the Renasant Center for Ideas and Hyperion was to see what was going on with this enormous dream of a chase vehicle.

I think I stopped breathing when I walked up to it...stood there in awe...walked slowly with great excitement around it and said, " OH ... My...God..."

The shear mass of the D-2 is mind boggling! And I certainly cannot imagine seeing it coming down the road! It is truly a jaw-dropping, breath-taking work of imagination and innovative technology on wheels - and huge ones at that!

ESCAPE THROUGH THE SUNSET

2011-06-06T22:01:00.000-07:00

Reflections of Memories I

Reflections of Memories II

Flight

WHAT WE MAY OVERLOOK

2011-06-06T21:53:00.000-07:00

Abstracting the landscape can provide totally new views of what can be within a landscape that would normally not be seen. Most people in general do not take the time to look for the little things of life that are around us all. These little mysteries are often very illusive and short-lived. Capturing this magic with the iPhone camera and it's various apps is, for me, a way into the world around me.

Bottle Among the Rocks

White Bird on White Light

ROAD TO DESTRUCTION

2011-04-12T16:43:00.000-07:00

BREATHING IN BEAUTY

2011-04-05T18:44:00.001-07:00

MOONLIGHT AND DOGWOOD

2011-03-30T06:27:00.001-07:00

LIFE OF DANDELIONS

2011-03-30T06:07:00.001-07:00

Evening and What the Wiind Will Bring

Cycle of Life

Breeze Begins Change

WHEN I DEPART

2011-03-29T22:39:00.001-07:00

The Trees Go With Me

THE LONELY DISCONNECT

2011-03-26T13:51:00.001-07:00

SNOW IN MISSISSIPPI

2011-03-02T20:12:00.000-08:00

Pureness of white and
Silent of scent
Cradled in hand
Then gone with a kiss
Delicate by reason
an awaited wish
A Gardenia out of season
melts with a kiss.

* * * * * * * * *
Oxford, Feb. 2011/ 5" snowfall
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[via iPhone]

FOREVER

2011-02-21T21:37:00.001-08:00

Words, just words that meant nothing, really,
just frivolous
hollow echoes of hope
and those dreams created in perpetual lacking,
where that hollowness grew
so loud
you had to discard it all
or die
from the fruitless and the chaos
of Forever.

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[via iPhone]

CHAIR SERIES

2011-02-20T19:42:00.000-08:00

The Chair of Dubious Chatter

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[via iPhone]

GULF LIFE DESTROYED :: BP OIL DISASTER

2011-02-16T16:40:00.000-08:00

WINTER OF MY PAIN

2011-02-09T12:58:00.001-08:00

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[posted via iPhone]

OAKS

2011-02-05T20:06:00.001-08:00

Take all of me and watch me die the slow death of trees uncared for,
The long branches, graceful and free,
cut down to ridiculous sparseness. . .

twigs only, like me, that struggle to breathe
through seasons of struggle and harshness.
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(These Oaks, once strong and beautiful, with much to offer to passers-by, neighbors, and the neighborhood as a whole, were suddenly taken down by thoughtlessness for the greater good of the micro-environment. Years of growth gone in a day and in a few months time half of the 7 or 8 trees had died as a result)
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[posted via iPhone]

THE LIGHT . . .

2011-02-05T12:10:00.001-08:00

The Light thins to a narrow, faint ray in the wooded night. Is it leaving me or still leading me.

The trees whisper,
follow on. . .

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[posted via iPhone]

BRIDGE IN THE WOOD . . .

2011-02-04T17:09:00.001-08:00

leads me through the trees. . . words are spoken on the breath of those trees. Their naked branches touch my spirit and I can forget for awhile, my pain.

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[posted via iPhone]

FLIGHT FROM CHAOS

2011-02-02T18:13:00.001-08:00

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[posted via iPhone]

WINTER :: TREES

2011-02-02T17:50:00.001-08:00

I can stare endlessly at bare winter trees and cloth them with my thoughts.
They. . .
never complain.

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[posted via iPhone]

NESTING

2011-01-29T20:39:00.000-08:00

The instinct for nesting, whether birds or people is a desire full of joy, wonder, excitement, love, and for the relationship's future possibilities.

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posted [via iPhone]

WHERE HEAVEN WAITS

2011-01-24T19:58:00.000-08:00

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[posted via iPhone]

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM. . .

2011-01-24T19:51:00.000-08:00

Fairy Dust and a Craftsman home

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[posted via iPhone]

CLOUDS + WINTER TREES

2011-01-22T21:37:00.000-08:00

1. And People Live There
2. Dream then Die
3. Variation - Snow
4. Variation - Winter Blues
5. Cloud Magic

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[posted via iPhone]

CHAIRS SPEAK

2011-01-22T20:43:00.000-08:00

1. Have a Seat...and Stay There
2. Confined to Loneliness
3. Tired of Asses
4. Split Personality :: Still Pulling Me Apart

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[posted via iPhone]

BARE TREES AND A SOUTHERN SNOW

2011-01-18T16:02:00.001-08:00

There is nothing more wonderful than the beauty of bare branched trees in winter. The variety of their forms is something I love to study and I can never seem to get enough of looking at them. Add in an incredible snowfall to the landscape and the captivation factor is boundless.

CHAIRS SPEAK - Series

2011-01-16T15:36:00.000-08:00

Chairs have their own unique character and seem subtly speak through their form, condition, location of their past associations with people who have used them.

True Blue Meets Untruth
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[posted via iPhone]

SNOW DAZE IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI

2011-01-16T12:19:00.001-08:00

The Magic of Snow in Mississippi cannot be understood if you've never lived in the South and prayed for snow. The weather system was perfect for once, and by the morning of January 10th., we had a glorious 8" of the beautiful white stuff...wet and perfect for making a Snowcat and shooting images around my yard.

The Beginning Moments- Sunday night.

Very early Monday morning my two cats Tabby and Snickers wanted to go out as usual. Little did they know what was waiting on the other side of the door. It was hilarious. The surprise, the wondering, the "what to do...", the indecision, the going down and the coming back up and then the half-way attempts at going down again, and finally back inside...until they attempted going out four more times. Unsuccessfully... until daylight. Even then, it was if-y.

You Go First...

Not Sure About This...

I'll Just Watch..."

Early Morning Snowfall

Bottletree

Pinwheel

Wasn't Expecting This

Lavendar Chair

Missing Florida, Perhaps

Heart in Hedge Stem

Nooks and Crannies - Spanish Moss and Leaves

Ocean Springs Spanish Moss - Far from Home

Oak Leaf's Landing Place

Snowcat - What a Day!

Tabby: I ain't going out there again.

Snickers: zzzzzzz....

THE WINTER OF MY IMAGINATION

2011-01-05T11:09:00.001-08:00

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[posted via iPhone]

TRANSFORMING II

2010-12-29T18:47:00.000-08:00

TRANSFORMING OUR LIVES

2010-12-29T18:21:00.000-08:00

GONE AWAY AND AWRY

2010-10-28T14:24:00.001-07:00

The electricity has failed us . . .

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[posted via iPhone

DEPARTURE

2010-10-28T14:20:00.001-07:00

The Dragonfly is slowly departing,
leaving me the loss of its magic,
the blue of its wings
in memory only . . .
but a torturous one with a blue
like no other,
a blue much more than just a color,
the blue that filled
those tortured grassy beaches
of Waveland
that August . . .
that damned August!

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[posted via iPhone]

RED NO. 10

2010-10-28T13:27:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I wish I was red in a beautiful way,
not in a rageful way. . .

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[posted via iPhone]

FLAMINGO DREAMS

2010-10-28T13:18:00.001-07:00

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[posted via iPhone]

FLOATING INTO THE BLUE

2010-10-28T13:14:00.001-07:00

I want to float away into the blue light
into the starry sky
of the euphoric night
the whys
or wheres
don't matter now
it's just that time . . .

I feel, somehow.
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[posted via iPhone]

CURBSIDE AFTER OCTOBER RAIN

2010-10-27T04:36:00.001-07:00

Stepping out to check my mail I looked down and discovered an amazing little world of activity at my feet.
At the curb, a deep hole of broken asphalt, which I had always fussed about, had helped fallen leaves, pinestraw, and other minute pieces of storm debris to create a magic world. I was captivated by the minute sounds of flowing water and the bubbles created. The dangerous hole had been transformed into a small world of beauty with sounds of water music to accompany the rich wet colors of Fall.

Sometimes what we dislike and fuss about can, at some point, bring us a surprise of wonder and beauty - if we look down and take time to appreciate it all.

1. Waterfall Over Broken Asphalt

2. Leaf Dam and Trickling Water

3. Pinestraw and Leaves

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[posted Via iPhone]

2010-10-27T04:33:00.001-07:00

1. Dam System

2. One Red Leaf

3. Leaf Pile-Up

THE NIGHT OF TWO MOONS

2010-10-27T04:02:00.001-07:00

Shot at the "One Night Stand" - Motel Art Show Series in Oxford, MS - 2010

MORNING WITH FLOWERS

2010-09-06T19:59:00.001-07:00

1. Morning Blues
2. The Petunias Are Blue Too
3. Slinky Lantana
4. Crown of Thorns
5. Marigolds

Flower Symbolism:
Early Christians named the current- day Marigold, "Mary's Gold" and offered the blossoms in place of money at the foot of her statues. -

http://www.livingartsoriginals.com/flower-marigold.htm
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[Via iPhone]

CLOUDS IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY MS

2010-09-04T19:49:00.000-07:00

1. Touching the Edge
2. Earth and Changing Sky
3. School in a Field with Mixed Sky
4. Life and Death with Changing Sky

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[Via iPhone]

THE DAILY PIC at PIXELS

2010-09-02T05:16:00.001-07:00

I am pleased to say that my image, "The Bend Ahead" was chosen as a "Daily Pic". It was shot on the Victoria, MS Exit going back onto Hwy.78 East.

You can see this photo along with some of my other work at:

http://pixelsatanexhibition.com/?s=Gara+Gillentine&submit=Search

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[Via iPhone]

DAY TRIP TO MEMPHIS

2010-09-01T21:28:00.000-07:00

> 1. Self Portrait at Anthrpology
> 2. Bowls
> 3. Lavendar Bowls
> 3. Potato Vine
> 5. Two Geese
> 6. Memphis Sky
>
> _________
> [Via iPhone]
>
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SPRING STREET - TUPELO

2010-08-27T16:49:00.001-07:00

The Escape - Was it Happy?

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[Via iPhone]

VIEWS OF TUPELO - SPRING STREET

2010-08-27T16:45:00.000-07:00

1. Old Days
2. aRt LAb
3. Blocked View
4. Reflection
5. What Once Was
6. Skylight

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[Via iPhone]

VIEWS OF TUPELO

2010-08-27T16:34:00.000-07:00

Images shot in old industrial area in south part of city center, Elliott and Broadway.

1. Elliott Street
2. Window Barred
3. Barred enough?
4. Broadway Street
5. View from Elliott

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[Via iPhone]

THE CLOUDS

2010-08-25T20:03:00.001-07:00

1. Passing Square Books (8-19-10)
2. Driving Down Our Street (8-19-10)
3. Wednesday's Sky I
4. Sky at 247

I'll never look at clouds again without thinking of Jimmy.
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[Via iPhone]

IN MEMORY OF JIMMY

2010-08-25T19:55:00.001-07:00

"Thinking - 21 Grams"

(8-19-10)
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[Via iPhone]

THE ONLY TREE

2010-08-18T19:19:00.001-07:00

When the land is asphalt, concrete, and useless empty buildings . . .
What will you have then?
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[Via iPhone]

CHAOS AND THE BLUE SKY

2010-08-18T19:03:00.000-07:00

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[Via iPhone]

AUTUMN'S APPROACH

2010-08-18T18:35:00.000-07:00

Magnolia Pod and Red Seeds

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[Via iPhone]

SEED PODS - MAGNOLIA

2010-08-18T18:20:00.001-07:00

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[Via iPhone]

MAGNOLIA APPROACHING AUTUMN

2010-08-18T18:17:00.001-07:00

[Via iPhone]

PINK DREAM

2010-08-17T17:04:00.001-07:00

[Via iPhone]

PENTAS II

2010-08-17T17:02:00.001-07:00

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[Via iPhone]

OUTSIDE MY WINDOW. . .

2010-08-17T06:32:00.001-07:00

I THINK OF YOU

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[Via iPhone]

FLOWERS

2010-08-16T20:53:00.000-07:00

1. Pink Oxalis
2. Hydrangeas on Table
3. The Rose's Ending
4. Black Petunia

[Via iPhone]

THE CHAOS OF LIFE - OWL

2010-08-16T06:19:00.001-07:00

The purple, the green,
and faces first unseen. . .

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[Via iPhone]

PENTAS AFTER RAIN

2010-08-16T03:42:00.001-07:00

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[Via iPhone]

THE EYE UPON ME

2010-08-14T10:16:00.001-07:00

Katrina Took it All . . .

http://katrina-in-mississippi.blogspot.com

[Via iPhone]

Outside My Window, I Think of You

2010-08-13T19:12:00.000-07:00

Outside My Window, I Think of You

THE BLUENESS of AQUA

2010-07-30T18:47:00.001-07:00

( North Lamar in Oxford )

1. Downspout in Blue I
2. Downspout in Blue II

[Via iPhone]

LIFE IN HARDNESS

2010-07-30T18:20:00.001-07:00

"Why Did You Land Here"

[Via iPhone]

BRIDGES BREAK

2010-07-29T20:53:00.000-07:00

1. A Home That Never Was
2. Dreams That Died
3. The Bridge That Was

[Via iPhone]

DISSIPATION

2010-07-29T20:34:00.000-07:00

1. When Comfort Was There
2. Waiting for You
3. Waiting on Your Unspoken Song
4. Never Lasting
4. Without You - What Road is There

[Via iPhone]

2010-07-29T20:20:00.000-07:00

1. The Hand Holds My Contemplation and Addiction

[Via iPhone]

TIMES OF CHANGE

2010-07-29T20:12:00.000-07:00

1. Hydrangea Blues
2. Contemplation of My Day
3. Searching
4. Out of Place

[Via iPhone]

THE EMPTY SPACES

2010-07-21T19:29:00.000-07:00

1. My Lonely Door
2. Empty Like the Bottles
3. Talking to the Marigolds
4. Empty - You're Gone

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[posted via iPhone]

Bitter Song

2010-07-20T20:20:00.000-07:00

What are you now –
but alone . . . again,
empty like the dried broken body,
the crumbling body
of the butterfly
found with its wings,
its beautifully colored wings . . .
wings when touched . . .

detached

from their former purpose.

Broken

Like Our Departing

How Deep is My Ocean

CRUTCH and ME

2010-07-17T09:11:00.001-07:00

"Reflecting Pool"

My crutch and me over old metal gutter with water.
Water Valley, MS.
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[Via iPhone]

A DAY IN WATER VALLEY, MISSISSIPPI :: I

2010-07-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

1. Who's Eyes Used You I
2. Who's Eyes Used You II
3. Death of an Orange Door
4. Ash Stand Peddle
5. Sidewalk Ash Stand

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[Via iPhone]

THE ART OF THE IPHONE ::

2010-07-09T06:48:00.000-07:00

Sorry We Had to Part (my 1976 164-e Volvo - "Greenie")

I am extremely pleased to have some of my photos chosen to be located at the very cool online gallery known as . . .

Pixels At An Exhibiton

"Aim well, shoot until you get it, and app that bitch until it sings." —Knox Bronson.

Pixels At An Exhibition is a "gallery of the most beautiful and ground-breaking iPhone art on the web and home to an ever-increasing number of visionary pioneers in the exploration and development this nascent and vibrant new medium." - Knox Bronson

WATER in the STREET

2010-07-09T06:13:00.000-07:00

1. Hydrant Letting Go
2. Flooding the Street
3. Grasses, Water, Pavement
4. Pavement, Water, Sand, Rock

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[Via iPhone]

FEAR

2010-07-09T06:05:00.001-07:00

I have this thing with grates...

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[Via iPhone]

also posted at PixelEx

Visitation of Frances

2010-07-08T21:24:00.000-07:00

My beloved cat, Frances, RIP 8-7-09

Visitation of Frances

SNAKE EYE WITH BLUE

2010-07-06T18:15:00.000-07:00

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[posted viia iPhone]

Curb Life in Water II

2010-07-06T15:34:00.000-07:00

Second image in Flooded Street series.

Curb Life in Water II

Curb Life in Water I

2010-07-06T15:32:00.000-07:00

One of my images in the Flooded Street series at PixelEx.

Curb Life in Water I

SELF PORTRAITS ::

2010-07-04T21:38:00.001-07:00

1. You Stripped Me of My Sanity

2. Caged Birds Dream

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[posted viaiPhone]

MY GARDEN

2010-07-04T15:49:00.001-07:00

1. Hydrangea with Lonely Chair

2. Back Porch Blues

3. Blue Daze

4. Dusty Miller with Fowering Head
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[posted via iPhone]

QUEEN ANNE'S LACE

2010-07-03T23:53:00.000-07:00

One of the loveliest summer roadside flowers; delicate and happy in
the way they light up against the greens of the wild grasses in which they grow.

Some of these were posted at PixelEx (see below -Posted Links) right after I shot them along Hwy. 7 North (just before Sisk Ave. Exit) in June.

1. Queen Anne's Lace and Sky I

2. Queen Anne's Lace and Sky II

3. Queen Anne's Lace I

4. Queen Anne's Field

5. Queen's Fairy Ring

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[posted via iPhone]

Queen Anne’s Lace III

2010-07-03T23:27:00.000-07:00

Queen Anne’s Lace III

Queen Anne’s Lace II

2010-07-03T23:26:00.000-07:00

Queen Anne’s Lace II

Queen Anne’s Lace I

2010-07-03T23:25:00.000-07:00

Queen Anne’s Lace I

Queen Anne’s Lace and Sky I

2010-07-03T23:24:00.000-07:00

Queen Anne’s Lace and Sky I