From Grandmother Mountain Looking East towards Widow Peak

The New York Times has a wonderful presentation of a few of Ansel Adams photographs with audio commentary by Andrea Stillman, a former assistant. The presentation is great, the commentary is great but mostly this shows an alternative method of displaying photographs. This dovetails nicely with Brooks Jensen’s recent discussion of Folios. (Search for LW0421-LW0425) Brooks also presented yet a different method of presentation of photographs in his “Made of Steel” podcasts. (Search for LW0384-LW0389) All total maybe an hour of superior quality photography instruction. Three different means of presentation, all heartfelt and fitting to the goals. Check them out.

Lynn Harbaugh an American musician living in Canada (my old country) used some of my photos to create a little video expressing support for Barack Obama. It was inspired by Barack’s speech in Philadelphia on March 18. “There is a field……” features original music (by Lynn) + a Rumi poem + gorgeous photos of wheat fields in Washington (by Will).

Well Lynn, your very welcome. Remix deluxe.

I’ve found out that Michael, the author of the blog One Foot in Front of the Other has died Jan 15th after a long struggle with cancer. He is an inspiring photographer, poet and human being. Michael, you have opened my eyes to the intimacy of life and death. Thank you.

I’ll reprint his last poem. It his hugely moving to me. I’m swallowed up. Can I feel the life spark? Can I feel the life spark? I’m afraid that I might not.

Completely fascinating video from Annie Liebovitz’s Queen Elizabeth shoot. Echo via the strobist.

For the first time since we moved here, we have a nesting pair of Western Bluebirds around. We are not sure where they are nesting because we’ve seen them hanging around a couple of different nesting boxes we have up. The pictures above are of the male. His concubine is around. They are surprisingly approachable. More photo to follow.