All tied up in knots.

This technology is moving so damn fast I'm feeling like I'm being left behind, farther and farther behind. Sometimes it leaves me feeling anxious, all tied up in knots, like this photo taken of detritus on a windswept beach in Matunuck, RI. 

Jan D Armor

401.783.8232 or 401.441.5517

8 Indian Trail North

Wakefield, RI 02879

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So little time...

So much to do, so little time. Photographically, thinking negatively (pun).

I have China, Japan, Bristol, RI, Europe, Patagonia, etc. etc. etc. all to post up to the web. 

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Feeling like spring???

Feb 22...  Melting ice... melting fast. Things are changing down here on Indian Lake. Everyday is different, just like our sunsets, different every night.  Friday's high winds  pushed the ice around, and longer days, with more sunshine, have combined with the warmer temperatures to open up large dark patches of open water. Flocks of ducks and geese are back in profusion, along with the gulls. They are fluttering black and white patterns out in the distance. I spotted a large hawk on the edge of the ice, dining on something delicious.  However, he would have none of my camera and flew off. Bottom line, we do love it here.

Jan D Armor

401.783.8232 or 401.441.5517

8 Indian Trail North

Wakefield, RI 02879

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Matuneck Beach, South County, RI

I'm always drawn to the beach on a cold winter's day. The surf lifting in the wind, the light sparkling on the waves, the empty long lines that stretch out forever. It all appeals to my tragic romantic soul. Blow wind, blow...

Jan D Armor

401.783.8232 or 401.441.5517

8 Indian Trail North

Wakefield, RI 02879

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Dawn on Indian Lake

It was a lovely dawn down here in Wakefield, RI, Feb. 20. Soft pink clouds were clearing off to the southwest. We've noticed that the light on the lake is changing by the day. Our sunsets are shinning right into our kitchen. At sunrise the light is no longer skimming the far shore, rather coming right over our house and illuminating the trees across the way directly. It must make for a dramatic show to the few folks living way over there. And the ice is breaking up. yesterday the wind was howling but now has quieted down. Signs of spring! Kathy even found some mysterious buds popping up in the front yard.

Jan D Armor

401.783.8232 or 401.441.5517

8 Indian Trail North

Wakefield, RI 02879

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Change you can believe in

     

The light is always changing on our lake. And moving from our southwestern window toward our western ones. We love it here. The shadows from the Oaks that pointed so diagonally across the lawn are now moving toward the house. The snow on the lake has turned to a ice cone crush. Drops of water from the melting snow are coming off the roof like rain. The wind was still blowing hard yesterday, and there was a chill, but Spring is in the air. It's change we can believe in...

Ireland, rediscovered

I was thinking of The Emerald Isle while in the shower... not sure why. Anyway, I was compelled to dig out our images of Ireland and needed to run them through Lightroom. Wow... transformed.  (Adobe Lightroom is truly amazing.What a boon to us digital photographers.)  I've posted a selection from our trip, clockwise from Dublin to Wicklow to Waterford to Killarney to Dingle to Limerick to Galway to Westport to Sligo to Glenveagh National Park in Donegal to Bushmills in Northern Ireland, and finally back to Dublin. We sere chasing the big trees all the way, and in Bushmills we found a little used path with a Beech tree "hedge" that was amazing. I have been told that farmers used to grown Beeches close together, and "pleach" them, ie. cut them like a hedge, using the wood for their hearths, and the hedge to keep the cows home. Visit my gallery and you, too, will be transported to that wonderful land of the Celts.

Three Crows Ascending

Seen in Goddard Park yesterday.

Single Oak Leaf On White

Some famous artist (Picasso???) once said,  "All art is play." and yesterday morning I got in some playing. While wandering in Goddard Park I was moved to toy with the double exposure feature built into my camera. One can double, triple, quadruple, or even lay up to 9 exposures on one image with the Nikon. Here are some of the results.

Ice is Nice!

Cold, cold, ice... but so visually very nice. Powerful forces have created myriad patterns, and crazed abstractions right out our back door! The ice along the lake mirrors the clouds, and reflects the colors of the sky at sunset. I am intrigued and amazed by the rich possibilities here at any time of day.

Recently I was out in the middle of the cove with the fishermen, and found large swaths of delicate cracks like giant needlework woven across the frozen water. Here were decorative designs created by some mysterious hand of nature. Here is yet another opportunity for fine art photography.

Perhaps a bit smaltzy but sunsets really are inspirational

Corny perhaps, but I am always awe struck, and feel moved in my heart when I experience a magnificent sunrise or sunset. I feel so fortunate now that we open out to the west, across Indian Lake. On Tuesday evening the combination of the contrails of airplanes, and a dusty gray sunset combined to create this spectacular visual scene. I wax philosophical when such beauty presents itself to me. I cannot help but think, "I have been alloted another special life moment. Thank you." And I am reminded once again, this is why I am a fine art photographer.

Spectacular sunset, again...

Last night we were overwhelmed by another spectacular sunset. Here three doves are enjoying the show with us. As I was about to put my camera away, the geese began to swarm in the southwest, and finally settled on the only patch of open water on Indian Lake. Totally quiet, everything glowing in the orange light, and a flock of geese gliding in for a landing. Perfect.

Winter Snow Storm in Wakefield, RI

Our driveway has disappeared and the cars are once again buried, and this is only Feb 11th. Time to brave the elements and clear the white stuff away. I was out yesterday PM doing some shots. This storm is lovely to look at, inspiring, in fact, but treacherous to drive in and difficult to deal with. I found a pretty little white church on a lonely road near the URI Oceanography campus. It looked beautiful, barely visible in the swirling storm. Right across the street there was a wonderful tangle of trees behind some ancient tombstones.

Frozen Sunset on Indian Lake

The Light on the lake.

We have been living here on Indian Lake for about six weeks, and we are constantly amazed at how our view over the water is always changing. The early morning clouds above the far shore can be soft, pink, wisps, or dark warnings of a bleak day to come. As the sun raises higher our world lightens, our trees increasingly sharp and defined. In the afternoon the sun begins to fill the house with light, moving shadows across the walls. Each evening we wait for our sunset, usually with a glass of wine and conversation. The oaks on our lawn cast long diagonal shadows. Some days the sunset has been so spectacular I am compelled to take yet another picture. Other evenings, when it is cloudy, the lake darkens quietly, and the clouds turn a subtle violet. Finally, and rather quickly, the scene before us darkens, and another of our alloted days is done.

(See recent images of our lake on my website.)