Home Ground #7
Bozeman, Montana
2024
Miscellaneous art work and other items on display on our stairway. If you are a fan of my crow and raven photographs, you might be interested to know that it was that crow photograph on the wall that started it all for me, in that it was the first crow photo I ever took. It’s called Wet Ride and features a soggy wet crow perched on the handlebars of a bicycle on the narrow streets of Gamla stan, the historic old town in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a just a quick photograph in a chance encounter but I liked it enough that I was motivated to go out and photograph other crows and ravens.
I love the lighting in this image. It’s fun to see all your personal memorabilia. Nice tribute to your crow photography. I’m also trying to imagine what a complicated task it must have been to design/build those stairs.
Thanks Judy. I’m glad you’re enjoying this series. Regarding the stairs, I spent a long time figuring out how best to build those stairs. I had drawn out and calculated in detail ahead of time the height and size of each step to make sure it all would fit in the allotted space. But I didn’t really have the actual construction details figured out ahead of time; I just kind of made it up as I went along. That little shelving unit in the corner was an afterthought when I realized the wood pieces I had cut for those corner stair treads were not long enough to reach all the way to the wall. The shelving unit solved that problem by covering up the gap. In the end I think it was a great feature, one I probably would never have thought of adding if I hadn’t had the issue with the short boards. Sort of a giving myself some of those metaphorical lemons and then making lemonade out of them.