I wrote recently on one of the pages of my digital meadow that I’ve always admired the artists and photographers who can make the mundane beautiful. I see images of things that are so plain and ordinary, banal even. Images of things that I know I would look at and have a hard time seeing the picture. And yet, the images are beautiful, and even captivating. It’s easy to want to edit out the unattractive or the less ideal. But in truth, what’s beautiful about life is all of its messiness. I’m trying to let go of that need for perfection.
As the weather here has been warming this week and there is almost no trace left of the frosty weather now (hopefully) behind us, I thought I would post some of the images I made over the last few weeks. These were all an attempt at just capturing life in the moment and as it happened, ignoring the things that might otherwise keep me from making the picture. And focusing on what was in front of me. Sometimes I noticed the way the ice made our juniper look like it was coated with sugar crystals. Others it was simply the way the snow clung to the ivy growing up the house by the window of my reading chair. And of course, there were lots of playful moments to capture too.
