Memory

Memory

digital photo, 2014

A Ticket Inside the Missouri Botanical Garden

Recently completing the project management for presentation of photographer Jack Curran's exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Garden, I found myself inspired to visit the St. Louis landmark and document it myself. Jack's large format black & white images are far beyond my skill level and tools, but photography distracts me more and more as time goes by, and I get a lot of compliments on them. My parents took my siblings and I to the Garden during many summers of my youth, and though I can't recall the last time I'd been, it was like returning to those days upon my arrival. See the video I produced from some of the 500 + shots I took on Sunday morning at my ShawArt Films channel...

Waxing Gibbous

Waxing Gibbous
digital photo, 2014

Tumble

Tumble

digital photo, 2014

Tobacco Wave

Tobacco Wave

digital photo, 2014

It's been over a year now without tobacco... I sometimes miss that mildly nauseating, wavy buzz...

Dreamer

If you were with me we'd blow bubbles and talk about the stars all night, and you'd know you were with a dreamer. Believe it

Nocturnal Neighborhood

More shots from my  moonlight adventure in late April, these featuring more of the street lights as the full moon  rose over the neighborhood. It's a supernatural thing to behold, and I can see why man has been mystified by it as long as we've looked in the night sky, assigning mythology and science fiction to this heavenly body circling our world. Imagine it's power, majesty, and mystery prior to our earliest understanding of astronomy. These photos were mostly dark and pretty blurry, and would normally be discarded by even myself, but began to take on an interesting character as I played with them in my photo editor- like that of a pastel drawing. The moon almost becomes a character in the scene, lurking out from behind the tree line and lighting up the sky....