POTD: Frozen Motion

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Frozen Motion
Bozeman, Montana
2020

The relative lack of snow here this winter has made it easy to get up to our mountain house once in a while. Last week the wind had blown what little snow there was off of a section of our pond revealing these bubbles trapped in their ascent from the pod bottom by the steadily forming ice on the surface.

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POTD: Spent Beauty #47

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Spent Beauty #47
Wichita, Kansas
1974

I just finished going through all my old slides from back before I switched to digital photography. (That’s all of them unless I find another stash somewhere.) I tossed a whole lot of them and scanned the rest. After the cull, there were about 1200 that I scanned. At about 3 minutes a slide, that’s about 60 hours of scanner time. I spent about that same amount of time I imagine sorting them, labeling them etc.

The bulk of the photos are just records of the past–people I’ve know, places I’ve been. But a number of them are also results of my early attempts at using photography for artistic expression. I was not new to this effort when I was shooting slides as I had been working with black and white film for probably six years or so before I switched to color slides. Anyway it’s a fun exercise to look at those early attempts at art photography and compare them to what I do now. There have certainly been some obvious changes in my photographic style and skill over the years (as evidenced by the number of “artsy” photos from back then that I simply threw out), but there is a small set of them I’m still quite happy with. This is one of them, taken on a winter day in a park in Wichita.

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POTD: Ghost Rider

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Ghost Rider
Bozeman, Montana
2020

I swear I can see guy wearing a cowboy hat in this horse’s shadow. Hopefully it’s the ghost of 2020 getting the heck out of Dodge. Don’t let the door hit you in the caboose on the way out! Happy New Year everyone!

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