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~ Jalapeño Heartrise ~


Clam-Digger's Shack, Sunset


• Dysfunctional •


• Untitled •


Daybreak — Lifting the Light


Winter Blue, Sunset


Grist MIll, Orleans


ORBIT : a dishwasher's fantasy


Winter Squash — a tribute to Edward Weston


Icy Dawn, January


Marsh Road, Dawn


Winter Afternoon


Bed & Bone


Radial Sunset — December, 2005


Fracture Zone — Pond Ice & Sand


The Sea Is The Mother Of Us All


Winter Floats


Username: "stare_at_the_sun"


AICHMOPHOBIA — Fear of Needles


Chilly Peppers


P O R C E L A I N


DUCKARONI & CHEESE — An Oven-Ready Treat!


Ginsu Knife


November Blue — Steel on Sky


The difference between men & boys? They have sharper toys...


Flower Girl


Everything I Speak of Sowing (Everything I Try to Love)


Shiitakes & Pepper


November Sunset


3 by 3, the Peppers Dance...


Sunset, Wellfleet — November 2005


"I feel the autumn fail, all that slow fire..."


B A S H F U L


Peppers in Jar


Stormbound Gulls


Deadfall


Bowls & Shells: White and Light on White


Untitled


Clearing Storm — Nantucket Sound, Autumn


Happy Winner


Clambake!


Tidy Cat


Summer's End


Inspirational — Crossing the Finish Line


Reaching for the Dawn


Dunes, Cormorant, Skiffs — Pamet River Estuary


Alien Pod, Area 51, Nevada


Respect Our Wilderness: it is the Preservation of the World


Deserted Beach — Late Summer Dawn


Renée at Ease — Labor Day, Sunset, 2005


Cabbage


Untitled — Sepia Study


Darkness & Light


Milk, Blue, Cheese — Irish Porter


A Woman of a Certain Age


Torn Screen — Morning Thunderstorm


1977


Condo-Minimum


Rich in Freckles, Rich in Youth


Room to Themselves


Risen — Summer Dawn


Batterie de Cuisine — Kitchen Steel


Bamboo Steamers, Afternoon Light


Oyster Mushrooms — Cluster 1


Fisherman at Dusk


Gretchen, Mark, Rosie Jack — 3 Generations in Sunset Light


Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005


Shorewrack — Shells & Sand, 2005


Hairbrush, circa 1956


Summer Marsh, Evening Ebb


Escape from Planet Duckie


Plate Tectonics


"Pity the planet, all joy gone / from this sweet, volcanic cone..."


Voyagers


Pat and Jilly


Reflections Through the Pines — Hinckley Pond


Opting for Flight


Clearing Storm, Dawn — Truro


Sand & Shells, Sunset


Duckie Cornered — Version Blue


Fisherman at Dawn — Red River Beach


Fence & Apple — Nauset Beach


Pilgrim First Congregationalist Church


Pepper (Revealed)


Cinco de Mayo, 2005 — 5 green, 5 Red, 5 Sprigs


Guardian


Irritation — No-Shoot Zone


Stars & Oak, 4 A.M.


Skiff at Sunset — Stage Harbor


Silver on Black


Scissors — Deconstructed, Black


Riverbend — April, 2005


The Tacktics of Chaos


Mark & Tigger — April, 2005


Extreme INaction — Yawn


Shingles & Brush


Double "U" — Umbrella Tiedown


Certified Assistance Dog "Karma"


"Primordial Soup" — Where Life Began


Tattered Wall, Tilted Stone


Chiles & Lime


Winter Sunlight — South Wall, Town Center Baptist Church


Remembrance/Magritte: Ce N'est Pas un Ours


Old Methodist Burying Ground


Lemon Ice


to promote off-season tourism: "The Winter Cape — A Beach of Your Own"


One Toke Over the Line


CHURCH from STATE


Winter Flood, Wellfleet — Uncle Tim's Bridge


I Am My Work -- the Thorn that Weeps, & Holds the Sky Entire...


SLIPped!


Pink a Plate o' Peppers, Please?


'S No Emergency Here


Winter Sunset — Luminous Ice


The Three Dimensions of Our Love (Because the Heart Remembers)


Waiting Out the Snow


Neon Bowls


Cottage by the Winter Marsh — Herring River


Hazy Afternoon — Brant Point Light, Nantucket Town


"Das Boot" -- ("The Boat")


Build a Bookshelf for Homeless Clutter


No Indoor Plumbing


Snip & Press


"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" — Milan Kundera


Bleak Bokeh


Harbor Sunrise


Duckie in her Comfort Zone


Duckbath with Snack


Gravestones & Church, Daybreak


• Midnight Red •


O U T C A S T S — A Tale of Forbidden Love


• Midwinter Portrait •


In Memoriam — Ansel Adams, 1902 ~ 1984


"Soft falls the night: the waves break slow..."


Ghost Yachts


• Emergence •


Flood Tide & Cattails — Sunset


Homeward Bound • ("You are Never Alone" tribute)


Seabirds at Dawn


Room with a View


Early Daffodils, Clearing Storm


Pam & Greg


Captured Sky — Lichen and Pinestraw


The Intimate Fulcrum — Love's Failed Leap


Drydocked, Wellfleet Harbor


Prismatic Sunset — A Man's Reach Must Exceed His Grasp


Salt Marsh at Midsummer — June, 2002


• Peppers & Radicchio •


• Unfurled •


Pink Dahlia


Absolute Still — Moorings at Dawn


Moonrise, Habaneros, Nantucket Sound


Landscape of the Fractured Heart


Post-Apocalyptic Scavengers: Homage to "On the Beach"


— Kitchen Landscape, Goldplate —


Emergent Green


Grass and reeds


Mudflat, Pebbles, Shells — Sundown


Beachgrass at Sunrise


Low Tide, Sunrise — Nantucket Sound


• Incandescent •


Snap Peas, Deconstructed


— REACH —


Roseburst — Summer Rain


Flood Tide at Twilight


Acceptance at the End of Day


Full Ebb Tide, Uncle Tim's Bridge


Shot on assignment for a story about the Wampanoag Indians, the first settlers hereabouts


Sentinel


Dawn's Piercing Clarity


Night Fisherman


Jim Talin, Master Bookbinder


A Matter of Scale: the Forest Primeval


LensCap(e) — River of Gold


Lateral Displacement


Scorching Dawn


Interrupted Cleavage


"The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"


Basement Singularity


Summer Marsh, Morning Ebb


Untitled 1 — 2006


• First Night, 2007 •


• Grounded •


Bleak November


I feel the autumn fail — all that slow fire / denied in me, who has denied desire...


Lost at Sea, 1837


Crescent Moon, Daybreak


The Twilight Sea


Stormbirds


Drawbridge over the Canal, Daybreak


Clearing Storm, Wychmere Harbor


Rooted


Daybreak


Laundry Basket


• Crustacean •


Daybreak at Low Tide, Pleasant Bay


Winter Deadfall


The Last Moments of Leroy the Cockroach


Winter Sunset


The Wedding Tree


Scavenger


Lighthouse at Dusk


Moonraker


untitled


Foggy Dawn, Laurel Lake — Actual Full-Color Image


Stage Harbor at Dusk


Autumn Sunset


Dune Fence, Daybreak


The Fisherman in his Seaweed Cap


Red River Inlet at Full Ebb


Weatherbeaten


Autumn Gale


Clamshells on the Court


Afternoon Light, Bass River, Autumn


Laughing at the demons of her past, Duckie returns to the slough where she was born.


Storm & Gull, Autumn Afternoon


Duckie Plays the Mandoline


Leavings of the Tide


My time is spent waiting for the light


Avocado & Peppers


Molasses


Skylights and Trusses


At the Kitchen Shop


View from Ecola Point, Sunset


The Long, Bleak Sleep, the Winter of the Bones


Pleasant Bay at Dusk


Vanishing Point


Hopeful DPCers gather together to look for Steve on the beach at dusk...


Turbulence


Evening Illusion — Autumn Sky


Rebirth


Partners


Turbulence & Moonshine — the View from the Deck


Winter Skyscape


Evening Calm


A Little Spice: Chili Kisses for an Aging Boy


Sun-Drying My Tomatoes


• Voyager •


Starry Dawn


The Missing Hour


The Godmother


• PRIMORDIAL •


Riding the Luminous Air


Red Skiff, Early Morning


• untitled •


The Artiste


Pure as the Rose, as the Enfolding Heart


Heading Home


Why Must Flowers Die?


Family Portrait


Blossom & Bud


All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small (the lord God made them all)


Strainer of the Fractured Arc


At the Furniture Store


Deconstruction: Jennifer in her Winter Coat


Gull at Sunset, Looming Storm


untitled


Breaking Out


Gulls in Flight, Winter Dawn


Winter Light


Elemental — Father Time, Mother Nature


Nickelback — "Savin’ Me"


Sentinel Cypress, Sundown


The Way of All Flesh


Winter Gale


Overheard Conversation, Icy Dawn


Fort Hill Sunset


The Local


Our only tool is the light, and WYSIWYG


Cold Comfort


Poplars in Burlap, Winter Freeze


Butts


Cycle of Decay — Winter Deadfall


Onion & Chard


Bad Moon Rising — "One eye is taken for an eye..."


This Year: Patch, Paint & Float the Boat...


Chaperone


untitled


The Dance of the Shooter and the Sea


Evening Glow


Firestarter


• Interrupted •


Creepy Crawly


Tomatoes and Pepper


Youth & Decay


Undercover of the Night


Twilight Pond


untitled


Horseshoe Crab, Clearing Storm — Daybreak


Healthy Fast Food — Home Garden Pizza Rustica


Tide Marsh, Summer Dusk


Tall Shipmates


Tall Ships, Early Afternoon


Strive for the Stars to Land on the Clouds


Evening Light at Summer's End


Winter Morning


The Myth of Gravity


Dot at 91


"A Christmas Story" Leg Lamp Night Light


The Offering of the Heart


Blue Ice


Sunset Stroll


Irish Tweed


Herring River, Clearing Storm


Tapestry of Decay


Salt Pond, January 2007


The Persistence of Memory


Swans & Marsh — Midwinter


After the Storm


A Winter Day, My Mother, and the Waves


Oracle, Awakened


• Portal •


Habanero y Jalapeno — Hell on the Palate


The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea


Angst


A Rumor of Fall


Moonrise, Nantucket Sound


Seekers at the Clambake


Indian Summer, Foggy Afternoon


• Oasis •


View from a Box Grater, Sunset


Old Methodist Burying Ground


... and every night will have an end, and dawn is its beginning ...


Uploading Lobsters


Autumn Leaf


Menage a Trois — Mutant Version


Evening Harbor, Clearing Storm


Autumn Grasses


Drew and Family at the Seashore, Thanksgiving Sunset Portrait, 2007


Sea of peppers


Homeward Gulls


Beachgrass at Sunset


Early Morning, Autumn


C E L E S T I A L


The Winter Beach


• U N T I T L E D •


Detritus of the Event


Golden Gate from Fort Baker


Evening Snack


• Melons •


L I M E


• Okra •


• untitled •


Evening Light


...and looked down one as far as I could / to where it bent in the undergrowth...


"Cabbage Pi" — Fractal to the Core


Illuminati


Summer Shower (I photograph landscapes in my retirement)


Evening Anglers


S T A R E


...so I planted and groomed a stainless lawn / for our android child to frolic on...


Nicoise-Style Summer Salad with Fresh Herbs


Alice at Ease, Summer Evening


• untitled •


C H A L I C E


Beached Skiff, Tidal Marsh


• untitled •


A Man and his Dog


Patrick


"Where's your ball?"


SX-70


Beach Cottages, Dawn


Easter Morning


Rainy Day Study


• onion •


• untitled portrait •


...No Country for Old Men...


The April Fool


Winter Fractal


Peeps on the Half Shell


The Winter Dune


Drowsing through the Evening News


The Muffin Man


It's All Downhill From Here


Winter Afternoon, Provincetown


Harbor Blue


Emergent


Whiterook's "Shifting Sands" (522887)


Midwinter Ebb


Artisan Potato-Scallion Bread


Fishermen, Marin Headlands


Winter Dusk — After the Storm


Marsh in Midwinter


"High in the sunlit silence..."


Melancholia


For my Mother & Father ~ R.I.P. 1/13/2009, 1/18/2009


After the Storm


...And nature, from a simple recipe, has brewed a cup whose strength has dizzied me...


Pawprint and Shells, Winter Morning


The Passing Lane


"The woods are lovely, dark and deep..."


I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas


L E M O N


• T R I N I T Y •


A memory of moonlight (and of tangled love)


• A L I E N •


• Underwater Attack •


End of the Line


Where pencils come from...


Acorn Squash, Early Morning


Picket Fence, Ivy — Winter, 2009


Dune Grass & Hydrangea


• "Down to the Waterline" — Dire Straits • (Homage to Peter Max) •


Evening Flight


Nightfall


• The Light of her Life •


Salt Marsh at Winter's End


Moses Nickerson House, 1839


The Visionary


Pimientas Heladas


"Pigeon of the Sea" — for Deb


February Thaw — Pleasant Bay


• Self-Serve Air •


• de ( POST – IT ) ion •


Harbor View, Midwinter • (Urban Landscapes III)


Scottish Highland Bull, Taylor-Bray Historical Farm


Fieldbound Skiff


Blossom & Bud, Evening Mist


Giardiniera Fiorentina


American Muscle — Roush Performance Products Mustang


The Penitent


Model Waterway


"But sure, the sky is big," I said; "miles and miles above my head..."


Lowering Storm, Dusk, Province Lands


• T U R B A N • (Alien Vegetable Series, #3)


Swan Pond, Dennis, Winter's End


Copper Beech, Early Spring


• IAMBIC FLIGHT •


Cape Cod National Seashore


The Millrace


"Our Day at the Seashore" — Amy Hutchings


Tumbler, Deconstructed


Rosemary-Mustardseed Oil Alfresco


The Cormorant


CapeCodDreams


Jeremy & Ivan


Day Lily at Sunset


• Untitled •


Abandoned Icehouse after a Summer Rain


The Longboat


Death of a Pigeon


Alpha Bear


Red Skiff


• A wall is the graveyard of its stones •


"A Sermon in Stone" — Historic New England Stonewall


Halloween at Bell's Neck


Depressing Precipitation Continues


Hot Potatoes


Dune Grass by Moonlight, Nantucket Sound


Herring River, Autumn Storm


Quaker Meeting House — 1717


Guillotine


The Icehouse


Morning Watch, Winter Harbor


Daybreak, Schoodic Peninsula


Alienation


...at Blue Hill Bay


Vacationers


Strainer & Bowl


Onion & Screen, Summer Evening


East of Eden


Unlikely Escape


...for every tatter in its mortal dress...


The Watchers on the Quay


Baltimore Polka


• D I C H O T O M Y •


Still Life with Pole Beans


Evening Calm


Deadfall


Carol Ann


The Pillow Pusher


Transitions


Autumn Sunset


Ghost Skiff — the Headless Helmsman


Sagamore Bridge, Midnight


Centered Composition — Deep DOF — Leading Lines


Yggdrasil — the World Tree


Sandscape, Wellfleet


N E U R O S I S


Daybreak


u n t i t l e d


u n t i t l e d


u n t i t l e d


Unanticipated Escape


The Myth of Lemonade


Regional Air Travel — the way things used to be :-)


Abstracts : Spring Catalog — Pg. 37


G U L F


"The tale of winter branches and old bones" — W. C. Williams


Dune Fence, Lighthouse Beach


u n t i t l e d


The Day the Earth Stood Still


Winter Anchorage, Early Thaw


Still Life with Fuzzy Water Shoes


Irish Tweed, Take II


"White Jacket" Icebound, Ryder's Cove


Winter at the World's End


Stack of Two


The Fracture Zone


Gull at Sunset


D A N


Winter Pears


Rainy Day Sunrise


Boathouse, Cape Split


Rustbucket — The Grime of the Ancient Mariner


Winter Thaw, Bell's Neck


Postcard from a Fractured World


The Persistence of Memory


"Cloudy" — 1965


Winter Solstice


Portal


Determination


For love of winter, and of winter's light...


u n t i t l e d


* Shrug *


Abandoned Skiff, Morris Island


Light Rail in Decline: America's decaying urban infrastructure.


Foxtails at Sunset


Pylon 161


November Afternoon, Dennisport


The Fishmonger's Wall


The Chronicles of Eyeronica — Winter in the Garden of Chit Rabbinton


"...to feel creep up the curving east, the earthy chill of dusk and slow..."


Cold Comfort


The Wayside Inn — 512 Main Street


Red Skiff, Blue Skiff, Geese Foraging in the Morning Mist...


The Poet and his Dragon Hat


Daybreak, Provincetown


Exhausted from a long day of foraging, duckie guards her hoard of golden peanuts.


The key to her heart...


The Dining Car, Decayed


Automobile Ad


Beach Cabins, Winter Evening, Truro


Whiterook


"Omen VI"


Clearing Storm, Rock Harbor


Non-Standard Outdoor Camera Storage Unit


A cabbage serves as well as any skull / to be the book in which to read a round...


R E L I C


Buoys On the Clam Shack Wall


Meet John Carlisle — Musician & USCG Licensed Master


Highland Bull


Ebb Tide, Daybreak, Rock Harbor


I am my work — a fog of light that sets the day on fire.


Summer Rain


Rosa Rugosa


Fanfare on a Summer Evening


After Joel Meyerowitz — The "Cape Light" Series


Morning Mist


Call Waiting — Version Tropicale


Hillside Stairway, Cane Garden Bay


ZERO


"Snip & Press" on Steroids


The Oyster Farmers


Evening Grasses, Summer Light


Swan & Marsh


Brewing Storm, Summer Afternoon — after J.M.W. Turner


After the storm, the journey continues :-)


Sunrise Over Giza


f o r k


Midsummer Dawn, Feeding Egrets


a r u g u l a


Daybreak, Wellfleet


The Dragger's Drum


Still Life — White Bowl & Peaches


School for Cygnets


Overlook — Windward Passage


The Golden Hour


She is lost and gone forever...


"The Parliament of Birds"


Evening Light, Autumn's End


"...built, for an instant, by the heart's troubled beating, beyond all power of words..."


The Oysterman


T R A N S E C T I O N


... the bittersweet & unforgiving clarity of age ...


Passing Squall, Herring River


Beached Dory, Duck River Estuary, Wellfleet


Herring Gulls, Orchard Beach


Post-Apocalyptic Vison


October Noon, New Bedford


Autumn Refrain — "...all in the key of that desolate sound."


Autumn Gift


Trussed Arch, Evening Light


The Potato Eater


u n t i t l e d


• U N T I T L E D •


How swift it snatched my breath away — that tattered leaf at break of day!


. . ::: S L A P S T I C K ::: . .


The Musician


Pepper


The Sun


Rhapsody


The Winter Reverie of the Half-Hearted Swan


ShadowWood


Snow Shoes


O R B I T


Layer Mode: Soft Light


Ghirardelli Square


d e c l i n a t i o n


Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"


Eggland's Best


Windwracked Dune, Winter's End


Beloved Mandoline


Flood Tide on the Winter Marsh


Winter Sentinel


Elemental Sunset


A Challenge for the Wheelwright


The Red, the Yellow, & the Gold: Ducky guards her hoard of Ancient Sweets.


The Watchtower


The Moving Man


d e r e l i c t


Bass River, Sunset, New Year's Day


As Seen at the Dollar Store...


E n c o u n t e r


The Confectioner's Bin


Blizzard


"He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his Nowhere land..."


There was a thicket where I went to die, and there I thrashed, my thighs and face aflame...


"And over Sicily the air / still flashing with the landward gulls..."


Evening Light, Evening Calm


I'm Stuck in the Rinse Cycle at the Car Wash of Your Heart


"An apple serves as well as any skull / to be the book in which to read a round..."


A Day at the Factory


The Laugher


Winner, winner! Chicken dinner!


The rose-white waves, the summer sea...


"Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold."


Dune Fence and Shells, Evening Light


Breaking the Bank


untitled


• the persistence of memory •


Tulip


Sure, it's DEADLY, but is it a SIN? — The SLOTHful smoker's lair.


Foam-Core Bored — Rainy Afternoon


The Penitent


Forest and Foxtails, Evening Light


Winter Deadfall, Early Spring


Fulcrum


Still Life with Grapefruit, Morning Light


Journey through the Fracture Zone


Boatyard Shed, Duxbury Harbor


Spring Ebb


Teatime Peacock


Napa Cabbage, 2011


Angle of Repose


Moonset at Daybreak


Moonset, First Encounter Beach


DPC loves sunrises...


The Nestling


Urban Carrion — a Rabbit's End


The Bridge to the Eastern Shore


Ham Stock for Split Pea Soup


A Sense of Territory


Garlic and Juicer, 2011


BuBBle-Gum BuBBle-Wrap


A Pulpy Smile


Subsidence


The Cormorant


The Dinner Roll


My own definition of "far away" is "as close as I dared to get!"


The Harvestman


A&W Root Beer — Harwich Port, Massachusetts


Watusi ~ the Cowbone Fork


Each journey ends where it began.


In Search of the American Dream


Pennsylvania Rhapsody


Day Lily


Turbulence — Take Two


The Tattered Rose


The Americans


Sunrise on the Wicomico


GPS


Picketing the White House


Dumpster Diver


Polka Star


Applesauce — the Creation Myth


Estuary at Daybreak


Daybreak & Nightfall


Turn to Clear Vision — 25¢


The Warning


'56 Chevy Bel Air


The Cable Guy


Evening Grace


Dance with your Demons


... all will be well ...


Peter


u n t i t l e d


A toast to summer's end...


F/V Alison Marie at McMillan Wharf


Carrion Comfort


Ebb Tide on the Flats


Sunset over Wood End Light


moonlight & a dream of flight


Dune & Tracks


Mooring 51, Morris Island


Father & Son


Midsummer Lightning Over Nantucket Sound


After the Hurricane, Ryder Cove


For Sherpet -- August, 2011


Children's Cove, Chatham


While the sea is my world, the harbor is my home...


Relativity


Mirage


Blind Entropy


Overdraft


Sky Lines


At the MFA


Selective Desaturation


Hurricane Irene, 8/28/2011, 11:46:31 EST


Emergence


Disappearing Act


His Winter Coat


Crescendo


The Morphology of Decomposition


"Family" is a history of moments shared...


Scrub Pines at Sunset


Thanksgiving, 2011


"I'm bored!" — Pee Wee's Big Adventure


The Sailor's Hand


Surf & Light


"Say not soft things as other men have said, / That you'll remember. For you need not so."


"Shadows and ghosts go through shut doors..."


November Mist, Daybreak


Death of a Gull


After the Flood: the Gate to Nowhere


"I feel the autumn fail, all that slow fire..."


"Resignedly, beneath the sky, the melancholy waters lie..."


Daybreak at Meadow's Edge


Summer Dawn


Seascape, Provincelands


Clamset


"Life, the Universe, and Everything"


House Finch


Visitation


All Summer in a Day


Motel Series, #8


"My life is like a stroll upon the beach / As near the ocean's edge as I can go..."


Chips and Salsa


Summer Evening


Cholla


Dahlia for Shez


m a t r i x


The Boys of Summer


The Glassblower's Furnace


• u n t i t l e d •


The architect & his object of desire.


The Incredible Shrinking Watersplash-at-Sunset Photographer!


...wherethro' / Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades / Forever and forever when I move.


The Littoral Zone


Clearing Storm, Early Spring


Evening Light


Mandelbrot, Naturally :-)


The Lobsterman's Ghost


Full Ebb, Lifting Fog


u n t i t l e d • s e a s c a p e


When first we practice to deceive...


The Trout Fisherman


C A N O P Y


Get well soon, Dallas! You have miles to row and beaches to explore!


Pastimes for a rainy afternoon...


Beach Grass at Sunset


Down in the Dump


Fuzzy Logic: Where Money Goes to Die


Pulp Fiction


The end of the road's where the river begins...


Easter Sunday


Faded Glory


Gaussian Blur


Yellow Chair, Blue Chair (One Pair, Two Pair)


d i v e r g e


Cookbooks


The Golden Swan


Early Daffodil


Nor all your tears (unlock) her layered heart...


The Red Fence


Lighthouses are my passion: tone mapping is my drug...


Winter Sunset


The Wreck of the Barcalounger


S Q U A L L


Feeding Swan, Winter Pond


u n t i t l e d


V E R V E


K A Y A K


Godzie the Riveter


Up the Creek


The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Best Cinematography, 1989, Nominee)


Sugar Candy Straws


Aspen Grove, Winter Morning


The FlipFlop Man


Plovers at Daybreak


If voice were blind, how would sight learn to sing?


BonBon


Ostinato


Just make a few tracks, Jack!


Ridgeline


Skiing the Treeline


Vinnie & the 'Rook


Clearing Storm, Late Spring, Yosemite Valley


Goodbye to All That


Daybreak over Kitchen Island


The Snow Tourist — Charlie English


u n t i t l e d • l a n d s c a p e


Glimpse


Where the Village Ends


Winter Light


Resolved: Shoot More BW Landscapes


The Day the Music Died


Stack


Prow


Taking the Polar Bear Plunge — 01/01/2012


TheGrinch


The Search for Art Roflmao Continues


The Hygienist's Smile


Winter Daybreak


Old-School


Meterology: The Science & Study of Weather — Paco, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.


Heaven & Earth


Stormwatcher


Arrêté!


"As the Sun Turns to Ash" — Goatwhore


The forest where I go to dream...


Limulus Polyphemus — a living fossil that will endure.


Sun — Glasses


The Oysterman


Feeding the Seahorses


Use it up, wear it out — make it do, or do without.


w a n n a b e


Oh, Rats!


g r a p p l e


a m b i g u i t y


"...only MOSTLY dead..."


L O C U S T


Pet Rock in the Middle of the Road


Every cloud has a silver lining...


It seems like years since it's been clear; here comes the sun...


The Bathhouse at Entropy Beach


L I F E B O A T


Wellfleet, September 2012


...and the seat ran away with the spoon...


Fruit Bowl


Fish Out of Water


Fisheye (Mola Mola)


The Dragger's Rigging


Moonlight Sonata


Easy Does It :-)


The carpenter wonders...


The Astronomer's Delusion


Down East, Summer Afternoon


Boneyard


e m e r g e n c e


What Now?


Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush


Juniper Sprig


Old Friend, August Evening


Sheepscot Emporium, 1782


Familiar Grin


S C R E E C H


Like a kid-sized cannonball...


Summer Haze


"This is the garden: colours come and go..."


The Tempest


Ketch & Sloop


I *AM* this place — the flooding marsh, the arch of sky entire...




Simply Luscious (some assembly required)


Street Game


Rescue Tech : USCG 42' Near-Shore Lifeboat


Independent Rear Suspension?


Tumbler


Day Lily, Summer Evening


Energy now — No crash later!


Burying Ground, Early Autumn


Too Cold to Ride


The Landscaper's Fantasy


Tundra


Angle of Repose


The Glassblower


Deconstruction at Daybreak


Nothing that ever rose, but fell — and Art is the gift of landing well...


The Bobcat Man


Clean up the property and get it rented out...


The Halfpipe's Song


Midnight Snowfall


PigMa Goes to Heaven


Winter Fog, Point Sur


O Tannenbaum


What remains, of the day?


Buoy 201


Edge of Reality


Seven Swans a' Swimming


Hosta in Winter


12/21/12 — the Final Ebb


The First Noel


Leaving San Jose


Condor, Clearing Storm, Point Sur


Hydrogen + Oxygen — Fused in the tumult of the sea


S L I D E


G R I D L O C K


b a r r i e r / r e l e a s e


Canopy under the Canopy


Be quiet now, and still. Be unafraid.


Turkey enough for 48 days?


the way to San Jose


Reuleaux Triangle


Foundation — the Origin of a House


National Seashore Faces Access Problems in Sandy's Wake




History Button


Chicken Pot Pie & Asparagus


Soliloquy


When windows die...


The Cranberry Harvest


Terrazza Antica


mariah boat house 2


u n t i t l e d


...they shall be one / with the man in the wind and the west moon...


They don't fly AWAY from NickyB :-(


Evening Glow


D E L I V E R A N C E


Summer Storm, Northbound


D A H L I A


"...strong silent greens serenely lingering..."


Midnight Masquerade


u n t i t l e d : e n c o u n t e r


P R I M E V A L


The Thomas Crown Affair II


Postcard from the Cargo Cult


Summer Morning


Clearing Storm, Early Morning, Red River Estuary


Corona


Subject / Verb


I touched the stones, and they had my own skin...


You Name It!


Portlight & Loadline


Day Lily


Need a hand there, pal?


w i n g s


c u t — o u t — t a k e


Birds Chowing Down


Alfresco


At Play in the Garden of the Spoons


Airy, Open-Plan Gourmet Kitchen


Tidewrack


Out Back at the Docks


First Encounter


Eternal rest grant them, O Lord, and us the springing of the year...


Bea


Foragers at the End of Time


Nude


"Secrets breed paranoia." — Thomas Holt


Middle of the Road


The View to the 13th Green


The Icehouse


Strangers


Jimmy, is that YOU?!!!


¡No más! ¡No más!


1927 La Salle Phaeton, Detail


Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge, 1933


Water & Earth


W A T E R M A N


— e n t r o p i c —


And then she wept, for fear the Lord would not accept...


MemeSue


These dark days of autumn rain / are beautiful as days can be.


Estuary & Pier


T E R M I N U S


Annoyance


d a f f o d i l


At the Bicycle Boneyard


N O N S E N S E


T O R S O


The Secret


Sunset, Rock Harbor


h i d e / h u n t


Strawberry Tart


Good Night, Dear Heart...


Tourist Cabins, Truro


Peekaboo


Falling Apart


m u d f l a t / s u n s e t


Sixteen!


B is for Beaches & Bright winter days...


Dreadful Sorry, Clementine...


The Mind's Eye


OOO000ooo000OOO


Midwinter Thaw


Daedalus Remembers


Scavenger


These furrows that crowd me, mark my years...


Winter weather? Not a fan...


The Holes in My Heart (Only She Could Fill...)


Kid You Not


Oak & Stone


Down at the Docks — The barnacled underside of flotation technology.


WindScript


Winter Surfing


And God said: Let the waters...be gathered together...and let the dry land appear: and it was so.


Hull


Winter Harbor, Golden Hour


Stormseeker


The Winter Coat


Visitor from the Arctic


Fire & Ice


Iceboat


Snowbulb


OYSTERFARM — "Dead Skiff Bay"


Ramen Marsh & Egg-Drop Sky :-)


Blinded (by the) Blues


The Ophthalmologist


A Rumour of Sumeria


2014: It BEGAN with a BRRRRR!


u n t i t l e d


Live for the Moment — Life is Love


The Roller Coaster


b l e a k


Specimen Cottonwood, Seth Knowles House


And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, no longer blown hither and thither...


The Minimalist


. . . tending their sheep . . .


Christmas Greetings


2 Weeks Later...


Sundown at the Icehouse


s h o r e b r e a k


Gold Coin Crab Cakes w/ Spicy Cucumber Salad


p a s s a g e s


Indian Summer, Riverbend


Remembering Alfred Hitchcock


Transiting the Panharmonium


The Pineapple Goblet


Sitting on the Dock of the Bay


Early Snowfall


Autumn Anchorage, Clearing Storm


c o v e n a n t


g l i m p s e


p e i g n o i r


Alone, just the two of us alone...


Scotomaphobia — When my sight fails, how will I see to hear?


Late October on Canoe Pond


... we band of brothers ...


Daybreak at Town Cove


Orleans Congregational Society — meeting since 1646


s u n g l a r e


Sideyard Shed, circa 1821


A Lazy Autumn Day by the River : Inspired by "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"


October Maize


F A L L E N


Stormbreak at Day's End


Perching at the edge of entropy : a meditation.


The Blushing Bride


"But UP is DOWN!" ReCURSED the CLOWN, "And MANY a BRIDE has RUED her GOWN..."


It wasn't Buenos Aires where I found Art Roflmao (and it turns out he's the devil after all)


Cecile Leriche and her Farmstand Maize


Hill Country


(as if all worlds were there)


Celebrating New England's Maritime Heritage


The calm before the storm...


Dinghies at Stage Harbor


Harley Davidson V-Twin Police Special


Oculus — the Eye of Heaven


Pedro by Moonlight


Brooks Academy for Boys & Girls, circa 1844


Go Ask Alice


R E T R I E V E R


A ripple widening from a single swan / winding around the waters of the world...


(Un)natural Symmetry


Early Morning


Baby's Breath


D E M I S E : The Humpty Dumpty Tragedy


Daybreak on the Herring River


Summer's End


Spectators at the Edge of Being & Nothingness


Sunflower Sutra


p e p p e r s


b a c k w a s h


m e t h o d i s t


Good Morning, Sunshine!


Cherish the Earth!


Racing the Storm Home


Takeaway


Flipside Orange!


"...for every tatter in its mortal dress."


F A R G O


The Old Schoolhouse (circa 1869)


f i x a t i o n


We called them "Swans", and they were beautiful!


Passing Storm, Sunset


Evening Rest


Incoming! : Butterfly Bush from the Butterfly's Perspective :-)


u n t i t l e d


A Midsummer Evening at the Shore


Ezra Weston "King Caesar" House, circa 1809


Take Your Pick!


Evening Ebb


The Marsh-Mellow Man


Hydrangea Leaves


And it was my favorite knife, too :-(


through a glass, softly


Alan in the Marsh


The Perfect Loaf — Cranberry Banana Bread


Mother & Child (Little lamb, who made thee?)


I get dizzy and feel like hell...


Day Lily & Yew


Gifts from the Sea


Tourbillon


Barn Find


Just a hint of breeze, as a morning zephyr sweeps the marsh.


The Bicycle Boneyard


Outflow by the Herring Run


Irwin at the Grill


everything I speak of sowing (everything I try to love)


Day Lily


Rainbow at Daybreak


Boys & Girls Academy — founded 1844


Harbor Nightfall


Cobie's Clam Shack — A local tradition since 1948


Daybreak on the Estuary


Fishermen at Daybreak


Morning Light


High Fog, Partington Ridge


Boathouse, Salt Creek, Cape Cod National Seashore


Note from myself


Roma Tomato


"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid / Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire..."


The Church on the Hill


1st Congregational Church, 1870


A Rumour of Pain


Azalea


Cupid's Remorse


What NOW?


c r a n e f l y


G A L A G A ¡ R E D U X


Empty Threat


The Origin of Symmetry as a Construct of the Bicameral Brain


Join me in an ice-cold Carta Blanca?


circular reasoning


Checked Out


End of the Road


Seawall & Cypress


Nesting Ospreys, Early Spring


Fuel Dock & Cordage


The Volunteer


V O Y E U R


Spring Lamb


Timex Expedition: Tide/Temp/Compass Watch


e c l i p s e


* w i n k


Herring Gull, Afternoon Light


Toothless Duckie Plays the Timex Blues


Neither Far Ago Nor Long Away


u n t i t l e d


S E M A P H O R


Couched here in soil and stone, I make my home at last; bitter at the bone and fading, but not lost.


Dune Fence & Tide Flats, Early Spring


The Dingy Dinghy


Bleak Equinox


I love the tapestry of my life, but oh! the sieve of memory...


03/19/2014: The Last Sunset of Winter


Setting up the Donut Run :-)


Feliz día de Santo Patrizio : The VERY rare 4-lobed, green tortilla chip is prized throughout Mexico


Abandoned on the Side Spur


Shadowstalker


The Sailor Who Turned His Back on the Sea


R-G-B-C-M-Y-K :-)


Leading Line, Rule of Thirds, Shallow DOF


p u r s u i t


A Squabble of Gulls


The Amish Way


Stemming the Tide


"When the Bough Breaks" : The Safflower Seed Disaster


Politics: the art of doing nothing until it's too late to do anything.


I read the news today, oh boy...


"...who we are and what we feel and what is to become of us ..." -- Garry Winogrand


Rough Beast


"Daddy, make it move!"


Sonata in G Minor for Geese and Fence


I took a drive to the wholesale club, where I pampered my inner carnivore.


Winter Ebb


t r i n i t y : w i n t e r : t r e e


The Winter Strand


Recipe: Removing old adhesive from objects with Mayonnaise


s p a t u l a


m i d w a y


Scratching for Quahogs, Winter Evening


Window Seat


Leeks


Remains of the Day


Do I have to spell it out?


g o    d e e p


Cloaca


Snow Shower at Fort Hill


Snow Monkey Makes a Little Noise!


Tunnel Vision — the Deterioration of Sight with Age


Gondola al Tramonto, Venezia


BLOT


e   n   t   r   o   p   i   c


Tibetan Singing Bowl


The BareTree and the Bay


The Nor'easter


Winter Harbor


No Lifeguard on Duty


Henry's Home!


u n t i t l e d


Here I stand, foot in hand...


Peter


u n t i t l e d


Evening Grace


t u r b u l e n c e


e m p i r e


p o r t h o l e


When you step inside this picture, you are where my heart calls home...


This year, I swear, we'll FLOAT the boat!


Winter Calm, Evening Light


The Daily Withdrawal


n e c r o p o l i s


d e a d f a l l


"She loves the bare, the withered tree..."


Boomer & Mary


Wednesday Night at the MFA


Ocean's Edge


u n t i t l e d


Bad Dream


The Watchtower on Scargo Hill


d i s p e r s i o n


Cruisin' Old-Style


u n d e r f o o t


d u m p s t e r


The Islet of Parentheses


The Chef and His Bird — Thanksgiving, 2015


Doorscape — Broken Pot, Oak Leaves, & Yew


Vintage Elbonian Cheese Blocker, circa 1952


Boardwalk & Salt Marsh, Autumn Afternoon


The Burying Ground in Autumn


293 Bay Drive, Heading East


Boomer


Lift Gate & Brake Light


Rabbit Returns


b e h o l d e r


Dos Equis


Sea Nettles


View of Bixby Creek from Hurricane Point


Paranoia


The Fish Whisperer


The Wilderness Stare


The See-Worthy Skiff


Eldredge Public Library, est 1896


t r a n s i t i o n s


They don't come any leakier than this :-)


Autumn in the Village : the Painter and the Beech


The Necromancer's Song


Stormchaser


u n t i t l e d


Catboat in the Evening Mist


Cerveza Mas Fina


Ceci n'est pas la pipe de Magritte


Salt Marsh, Autumn Afternoon


The Harvest Stand


Flotsam of the Junkyard Sea


F R A M E D


Fall River Mahal


Wheels 'n Boats


steam & storm


Son's Way


A Journey Remembered (or Foretold)


Therapy


Evening Flood at the Icehouse


s n o u t


The Shellfish Dock


Fin de Voyage


August Morning


85 Degrees on a Summer Noon


A Land Worth Exploring


'69 Chevy Impala & the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile


Gridlock in the Cart Corral


Summer Evening, Swan River


Roadside Attraction


Unidentified Floating Object


Harbor Dawn


Ectoplasmodia — Life in the Void between the Stars


Depot Dogs: a Summer Treat


The Yawl


The sea is calm today, my friend / miles and miles of sky to swim...


windowsill


Geranium Sanguineum (Bloody Crane's-Bill)


Flower Child


b u r s t


Tumbler


It's the Real Thing, Eh?


"Games III" : Gollum Chess


the stillness was in the key, all of it was, the stillness was all in the key of that desolate sound


Summer Mist, Waiting Skiffs


d e c r y p t i o n


Catboat in Summer Mist, Cockle Cove


Bear_Music


Found in a Child's Garden...


Gwyneth's Feather


Clematis


The Old Methodist Burying Ground


r e p u l s i o n


Roundabout


Cacophony


The Dogwalkers


Water Lilies & Pine Pollen, Sheep Pond


In the Still of a Perfect Summer Noon


The Day the Clocks Stood Still


The Orange Buoy, Skaket Beach


Braking Down by Arey's Pond (1046397)


Flood Tide at Evening, Coy's Brook


Scrub Oaks & Wetland, Afternoon Light


Miss Fitz


Storm Front : "Safe at harbor, everything is easy..."


Green Fusion


Spring has Sprung


The Black Basketball


Thou shalt not shoot with thy lens cap on.


Oops!


No Parking


How the Other Half Lives


Prime Minister to Face Charges in Bridge Finance Scandal


Civitavecchia


View of Oia, Santorini


Adriatic Breeze


The Bridge of Sighs


Seafood in the Old Town


Toy Soldiers?


Springtime in Istanbul


The Air up There : Daybreak at 36,000 Feet


The Graveyard Down the Road


Sincerely Yours


ubique in tenebras cordis


e n i g m a


s a l m o n


* oooo *


Winter Lane


Cipolle Rosse


i n t e r r u p t i o n


f r o n t i e r


Down at the Dump


"Flare? You got it!" — The Art of Belaboring the Obvious


You Name It!


Fauxtographer Woody & His Rolleicord


Glace Sur la Mer


Winter Branches


The graveyard draws the living still, / but never anymore the dead.


Mancala


w o r k s t a t i o n


Cranberry Bog, Winter Light


Northeast Passage


First, let the bulb change YOU...


The 13th was *that* kind of day — Woke to this, and it only got worse :-(


Snow Oranges


Winter at the Camp


We travel in pain. We die. There is no other road.


Komatsu WA 200 Front Loader


"Hairdresser" — ZZ Top


Many years later...remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.


The Stylist


Contemplating Rothko


Frozen Wind — The Blizzard of 2015


5.4954


sunflower blizzard


Down on the marsh, in January, we call this warm!


The Bait Shack


Barefoot in the Dunes at Sunset


Quoth the Raven {Say No More}


Santa Maria del Rosario, Venezia


Red Boat, Blue Ice


Pond Ice, Afternoon Light


Marsh House, Orleans — circa 1850


Ghost Ship


Resolved: find a less dorky winter hat


— *FORM* is the tangible manifestation of LIGHT in SPACE —


Big Sur Coast South of Nepenthe


Trapping the Wild Lint


w h i s p e r


D U C K I E S !


Verne


The Docent


Winter Scene


Hubba Bubba — An American Original


d i m i n u e n d o


Blue Angel


r e l u c t a n c e


Winter Light, Early Evening — Herring River


1946


California Noel


Storm Front Over Point Sur


View towards Garrapata Ridge and Point Sur


After the Feast


Thanksgiving Frolic


Do Not Enter


Terrace at Daybreak


o v e r s i g h t


u n t i t l e d


Cry to Heaven


"Perfect Data" : The landscape photographer's secret.


Fifteen Turkeys in the Fog


Birds on a Wire


Old Methodist Church & Burying Ground, circa 1836


dead calm at full flood


Sea of Light


r e t r i b u t i o n


The Brooch


The Birds


a n t e A


Winter Light


Snarfles the Carnivore


Divination


Aftermath


Grog's Hidout at Watur Hol: Grog kil meny tastee animulz here.


Last of the Crop


Seascape : Interrupted


Fisherman & Gull


IMG_9764-McWay-Falls


d a y b r e a k


Autumn Afternoon


Deadfall


Adirondack Byway


Maserati in the Rain


Why settle for either when you can have it all?


...the anguished, guttural groan of overburdened stone.


Window Glass


Summer Solstice, Crossing the Arctic Circle


The Crow


Awesome Weekend for Tiger Fans!


Untitled Diptych


M E D U S A


Evening Mist


Gone to Seed


Anthurium Andraeanum


Time breaks across a shoal of light, shadow on shadow in waves of night...


Summer Daze


Red Skiff, Evening Flood


Swimming Hole, August


To Wish Upon A Duckbone


Beehives at the Pasture's Edge


nowhere


Spectators at the Apocalypse


Evening View up the Firth of Forth


The Endless Journey


Offerings at the Yard Sale


Study — Julienne Peeler


Bob's a Big Boy Now


Bedhead


Midsummer Romance


The Fisherman at Home


Evening Calm


Stone & Slate, Shetland Islands


The Bridgedeck


My Blue Heaven


"He doesn't LOOK particularly dangerous, but why is he all up in my face like that?"


21:30 PM in the Land of the Midnight Sun


Summer Solstice, Geiranger, Norway, 2018


d e c o n s t r u c t e d


It's a VERY Bad Hole !


Altarpiece


The Windblown Rose


The Burying Ground


The Really Big Toy :-)


Flower Moonrise


Santorini


Postcard from Santorini


The Bicycle Bridge Over Bass River — Opening June, 2018


The Silmarillion


Ready for a Refill


Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know / It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?


The Bright & Tangled Thicket


Windowsill


u n t i t l e d


u n t i t l e d


Estuary


"Generations have trod, have trod, have trod..."


Big Brown Bag


i n c u n a b u l u m


f l o t s a m


Livorno, 2015


Le Monocle (en Forme d'Arbre) de Mon Oncle


d e p a r t u r e


Yesterday, or Far Away


w a t e r : w o r l d


Sea Cadets, Kotor, Montenegro


View of the Prudential from the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway, Winter 2018


20180322 - ZW 13796 SJ


Strangers in the Sky


McLaren


This is Daffodil Season, not Blizzard Season!


Drive-By Shooting


a l l e g o r y


NotAnsel


La Iglesia de la Misión de San Antonio de Padua (1771)


It sure as heck surprised ME!


Family Time: Tide Pools on a Bright Winter Afternoon


The Ford by the Cliff


Deadwood


How (Not) to Shoot a Jet Plane


But, all the good toys are OUTSIDE :-(


parallel(s)


The Winter's Tale


the Boyz at their Best


b o x c a r


De Oculo Caligante Memoria


Passing Front, Chapin Beach, May 2017


Pebbles in Moonlight, Garrapata Beach


When you're deaf color is noise, and THIS is loud to me :-)


Untitled


Waiting for the Morning Wash-up :-)


L'altra Venezia


Loosely Bound


g e s t a t i o n


I read the hews today and, BOY...it ain't worth the paper it's printed on!


Light doesn't get any more natural than this...


LAST year we SWORE we'd head South to a white-sand beach for the winter of 2018 — FAIL!


THIS winter, I'm gonna keep up with the snow!


u n t i t l e d

 



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