Photograph Your Artwork - Digitally!

Here's a recent drawing, photographed with an iPhone upside down and "tweaked" to improve clarity and contrast.

Ellsworth... and Becoming

A tree is such a noble growing thing, reaching toward the sky and going on and on in the fluctuations and extremities of environment. Socrates said that humans should not settle for being, but to achieve full potential should think of themselves as becoming. Carol Dweck recently "Discovered" this fact to base her book "Mindset" upon, and it does offer up some great possibilities!

Fall

When the days grow shorter we all get a sense of pulling more into ourselves and preparing to change the way we do things as well as the things we do. Replacing the process of cutting the grass with shoveling snow and the bike rides with snowshoe treks through the forest are only a small part of how we adapt to the seasons here in Maine. I think the nicest part of the change of seasons is that it is a process not an event, that the seasons slowly transform from one into the next and we can see the subtle changes in many ways each day. I truly love living in Maine! Here are some photos from this afternoon which I went out to get based on the concept of "fall" and how it might be expressed in the natural world around me. Because of the "time shift" it seems to be a lot later than it really is.