Calpurnius

Doing

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:50:57 +0000

If I know what I need to do, I do it, and a lot of the other stuff just does not get in the way. This is what happened yesterday after I wrote “Tilt.”

I set myself to getting rid of clutter. One thing that I believe: One’s internal and external worlds are directly . . . → Read More: Doing

Solitary

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:59:00 +0000

Solitary, originally uploaded by Calpurnius.

I’ve waited two days to shoot this field. Both times before I arrived too late to catch the setting sun on the fuzzy seed heads. Today I arrived early and I waited.

It’s a well traveled road that time of day. Some drivers paused to look over . . . → Read More: Solitary

Tilt

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:21:16 +0000

If there was any doubt, I did not win the lottery last night.

Yesterday continued to be off kilter, even past the point of falling asleep.� The radio show that I like to listen to as I go to sleep and when I wake up through the night was strangely missing.

When I woke . . . → Read More: Tilt

The Table

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:04:19 +0000

I sat here a week ago.� It was later in my day.� I had already been out for hours.� And it seemed so right.

Today it’s my first stop and it feels like a struggle.� I’m slogging through the day.� It took awhile to get even this far.

It would be nice if . . . → Read More: The Table

Return to Wolf Creek

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:24:26 +0000

Wolf Creek.� A week later.� Another Friday evening picnic alone.� It’s a little cooler and far more windy.� Last week sound carried on the air.� Tonight it’s only the sound of the wind through the tall Southern pines that shelter the point.

I’m listening for the sound of the kitten.

Nothing.

There’s no . . . → Read More: Return to Wolf Creek

The Ghost Cat of Wolf Creek

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:41 +0000

Last night I may have heard a ghost.

I was enjoying cool breezes and Taco Bell at the Wolf Creek picnic area at Crab Orchard Lake when I heard what I thought was the mewling of a kitten. I couldn’t quite convince myself that it was a kitten, however, although I have seen a . . . → Read More: The Ghost Cat of Wolf Creek

Mobile Voyeur

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:38:15 +0000

First mobile post coming to you via the phone from my Carbondale home at the CoOp.

For a moment many of the men here were wearing green.�

The outside tables were packed.

I swear the same woman was standing at the same spot in the checkout line when I looked up over . . . → Read More: Mobile Voyeur

Protecting The Innocent

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:38:32 +0000

Protecting The Innocent, originally uploaded by Calpurnius.

I see the commotion more than I hear it.

Teens — three of them, a couple and a third wheel friend of his — behind the storefront next door. They’re wearing EMO costumes in a town which favors country music. We’ve had burglaries in . . . → Read More: Protecting The Innocent

Living Monet

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:31:38 +0000

Living Monet, originally uploaded by Calpurnius.

I’ve been doing a lot of low aperture work lately, focusing on tight foreground detail and blowing the background into bokeh.

Here’s what happens when there’s no foreground detail to focus upon. It looks like an impressionist painting.

The thing I like best is the light . . . → Read More: Living Monet

Butterflies

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:06:53 +0000

Butterflies, originally uploaded by Calpurnius.

I was out for a rare early Sunday morning shoot when I found myself at one of my favorite places in Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. It’s a small trail they’ve set aside as recreated prairie. Assorted wildflowers were blooming and being dined upon by this species . . . → Read More: Butterflies