The Will Demands

We all have monsters inside. Just not all of us are truly pine cones.

Dragons

Taken: 01/03/2012 in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY. The bitter cold was only so because there was no way for me to capture it. Instead I busied myself with my new macro capabilities (extension tubes are everyone's friend) and turned my back to wind. These pine cones were just jingling off some evergreens and were only about 1-2cm across. But under the lens the cones look like little monsters waiting for mommy to feed them.

Shuddering Awake

Of note, few were day projects. Of greatness, fewer.

You don't leave, you don't stay. You take in, you're taken in. You don't put, don't pick up.

The open-ness is but a character [flaw]. It lies in splendor.

Haleakala at 5400'

Sun Spotting

Takeoff

Ring of Clouds

Topplers

Taken: 01/18, 01/14, 01/14, 01/17 and 01/18/2009 respectively in Maui, HI. In the footlands and at the top of the world looking down. There was too much too see and too little time to do so. Maui is the most unpredictable puzzle of a place, nothing seems to fit in and yet it does. Jets alight with the winds of the mountain, the mountain itself a mess of heat and pressure, drenched flowers blush, and frigid air prick the skin to red.

Partly Frozen

Mixed into the winter are some options for how to brighten up one's day. Snow is well known to reflect a lot of light and to blind even the most ardent of skiers. In the case of NYC the onliest way found to deal with the dreaded snow-blindness (mother nature's way of humouring our notions of "brightening up the day") is to simply ignore it until the crows come home to roost and upon finding no detail in their old haunts start peppering the ground with their corpses.

Taken: 01/26/2011 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. The sTREEtS were so prettily covered in white that it was hard to resist taking photos. The wind and cold helped with the resistance efforts as they both slowly wore away at my fingers.

I had to wait a few changes of the light in order to get a view of the street unoccupied by moving cars in order to give the illusion of disappearing into nothingness.

Breakdown

Even the car is agape at the wonder of it.

Taken: 01/18/2009 by Paia, Maui, HI. After a day of riding I was treated to some of the best sunsetting ever. Maui is a magical place that feels alien and almost unfairly gorgeous. Even when the winds blew as if to send us on our way, the place was still otherworldly.

Tall Tales

There is some majesty in the cathedral roof overhead. This one towers and joins over the road. Densely webbed at apex and in shadow, the trees give the illusion that they have something to say, if only they could lean over far enough to say it. But the words get tangled in branches and bramble.

Taken: Springtime in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, NY. The trees over Argyle and Westminster lean over and when they're barren they form such a gorgeous roof that it's hard not to ride down the road and stare up. This day we were walking. I was out with my Zenit and a roll of 100 (400 is for heathens)--there's a very particular feel, flavor to film. My only wish for this photo is that there were no cars. Alas, Photoshop only works on visible pixels, not emotions. Besides, this was bred in a darkroom.