All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget.
In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings as paintings record what the painter remembers.
Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning
according to who is looking at it.

- John Berger
 

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.
They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.  There you go.
I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

- Ellen DeGeneres
 

Winding Road - Have you ever walked late night through a forest when you are first in love?

The Rest of Your Life - The true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time...

Getting Acquainted - There are no foreign lands - it is the traveller who is foreign...

Temporary Art - Sometimes the photograph is all there is left...

Have You Herd the Latest? - this is more art than photography, I suppose.  Sometimes it's difficult to draw that line...

The Hidden and Unfamiliar - Some emerging artists' work tends to emphasise style over substance.  Taryn Simon, however, is not one of them...

The amazing aerial photography of Gerog Gerster...

Six Inspiring Photos - photography is the recognition of the significance of an event...

For Better of Worse - Are photographic filters overused?  Is the beauty of mere nature no longer sufficient?

The Sun can be like icing on a cake - the one ingredient that sends the otherwise beautiful into the realm of the stratospherically lovely...

Art of Fire and Fog - the curious vision of Ned Kahn...

Ned Kahn extends his vision to water...

Blind Green Cats and Purple Dogs - The work of installation artist/photographer Sandy Skoglund, whose interest is "unnatural things" - Part 1...

Foxes, Squirrels and a Picnic on Wine - more of the installation art photography of Sandy Skoglund - and my opinion (as if you cared)...

Photographs of the Week - five lovely photos which all together total about 500k in size...

It's All There in Black and White - these photos were so lovely, I compressed them only slightly so if you have a slow connection, perhaps you'll want to begin with the Alaska page following...

I Don't Know, Alaska - This Russian Orthodox Church in Ninilchik, Alaska is one of the most photographed buildings on the Kenai Peninsula

Callahan - for Harry Callahan photography has been a way of living - his way of meeting and making peace with the day...

Fire in Montana - Fires can be devastating - but as this photograph shows, they can also be breathtakingly beautiful.  (Occasional forest fires are necessary.  But systems are dynamic - sometimes competing needs clash in the short-term...)

High as a Kite - attaching remote-controlled digital cameras to kites allows for aerial photographs of things it was not cost effective to photograph aloft before...

Celestial Marbles - This is one of my favourite photographs.  I took it on my last vacation.  (I'm kidding.)  I think it's awesome...

Coming in from Above - Sometimes the right viewpoint is everything...

Coming in from Above Part II - timing can be pretty important, as well...

Houdini - This cat appears to have rescued himself...

Mother Loves Me - How could you doubt?

Trains Can't Fly - trust me on this...

To Toil Et Art - the most photographed "public loo" in New Zealand, and possibly in the world...

The Sea Was Like Glass - actually, it was glass.  The window is in our [now ex-] boat, Lady Fair...

Christening Te Papa - This was taken from the bow of our boat, Lady Fair from our berth in Chaffers Marina.

Emerald City - How many gorgeous pictures of Wellington sunsets will you want to see?  No, the sky wasn't really green.  It's virtual reality.

Evening in Wellington - This is actually two photos stuck together with the overlap just slightly blurred.  What?  Oh, you could tell?

Home Sweet Home - The top photo shows three nice advantages to living aboard: the sea life, the view, and those perfectly crystalline days when the water is like a mirror.  The bottom photo is a view from Te Papa's special "Lady Fair viewing window".

Re-view - Ho-hum.  Another perfect sunset over Wellington.

Re-vision - And this isn't even the end of it!  This is spring...

This is summer...

And this is winter...

Squarely in Wellington - Photos couldn't do that cloud justice.  The Civil Square skyline complemented it well.  Also contains several photos of other lenticular cloud formations...

Twilight - The last one.  I promise.

The Speedwell Ironworks Mill - Believe it or not, New Jersey has pretty scenery.  (And you probably thought it was all petrochemical refinery tanks!)

More from New Jersey - the Whippany River.

The (Mostly) Straight and Narrow - Large areas of Morris County are marshy.  Developers, resourceful as ever, build up pads (sort of like this path) for construction platforms.  Mosquitoes and little flying, biting bugs can be a bit of a problem in the summers, but hey - no place is perfect...

My House (I wish!) in Morristown...

The Schuyler-Hamilton House just around the corner from where we live...

Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown NJ - this photo was taken at sunset, but this old and venerable park is beautiful at any time of the day...

What's in a Name? - Hiscock, Backoff, Sweet-Beers, Vroom: names that speak for themselves...

Veterans at Rest - As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men...

A Long Time Ago - this stone says simply, "An Unknown Dane"...

Sunrise on Ridgedale Avenue in Morristown (I don't see them too often...)

The following photos (and several more) can be found by starting from the
Wonderful Wellington page.
Why not go there and check them out?

At Water Level - (yawn!) another photo taken from our back deck...

From Mt Vic - this view is about 180o opposite the "Moon Harbour" view below (so you can see what Wellington looks like from different directions)

Guy Fawkes Day - when the weather co-operates, the fireworks can be seen for miles around

Lady Fair at Night - taken from Frank Kitt's Park, about 180o opposite the "At Water Level" shot above

Moon Harbour - Wellington by moonlight on a still night is almost painfully pretty

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