Week 8, 2017 Project 365, A Photograph a Day

The eighth week of 2017, a photograph a day, every day.

This week encompassed a road trip to Wildwood, New Jersey, a birthday, a week of work, and the weather pushing us to an early spring with warm weather.

Following is the past week's work.

Day 50 02-19-2017

Sunrise on Wildwood beach, New Jersey. A lifeguard stand, solitary on an empty beach. A few months away from the crowds of summer.

Day 51 02-20-2017

Another sunrise, another solitary subject. This, the lighthouse at Cape May, New Jersey.

Day 52 02-21-2017

Back to work, black & white focus on lines and shadows.

Day 53 02-22-2017

 Driving home from work, the setting sun colored the sky before me.

Day 54 02-23-2017

A run of early warm weather reminded us that spring is fickle, the fear of cold is there but the warmth teased the flowers out o the earth.

Day 55 02-24-2017

I dreamt of white feathers.

In Native American culture, the appearance of random white feathers signifies rebirth and new beginnings, symbolizing hope and faith as well as to strengthen the connection between the physical and spiritual world.

Day 56 02-25-2017

 Springtime in February.

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance.
Rumi


















Photography & prose by Terry Rowe.

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2017 Project 365, A Photograph a Day, Week 6

The sixth week of 2017, in first full February week, encompassed an ordinary week. Some photos came from me living my life, some from photo walks, others were set up. Each day presented a new challenge, a new opportunity to see.

Porch / Day 36 02/05/2017

The week started off warm enough to spend several hours porch sitting. Feet up with a good book, dreaming of spring and summer.

Birch Bark / Day 37 02/06/2017

Focus on the bark of a birch tree,
all intriguing texture.

Graffiti / Day 38 02/07/2017

Graffiti under a bridge by the Potomac River.

Swoosh / Day 39 02/08/2017

Playing around with effects of shooting with an iPhone in the dark. The green swoosh was a surprise, hoping I can duplicate the result.

Snow Moon / Day 40 02/09/2017

Driving home after a long day at work, the Snow Moon rides with me. I stop to capture it as the setting sun colors the clouds.

Blue jay feather / Day 41 02/10/2017

A found blue jay feather laid out on a window sill in the morning sun.

Street art, Carytown, Richmond / Day 42 02-11-2017

 A late afternoon ride to Richmond, visiting an artist friend at her trunk show, this street mural caught my eye.




















Photography & prose by Terry Rowe.

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2017, The Third Week of the Year

The 365 project, a photograph a day continued. It is good to have a project, something to anchor my days, something to pull me out of the house on the dimmest of winter days.

Day 15 01-15-2017

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. ~Rumi

Anaryllis Distilled Day 16 01-16-2017

Capitol Night Day 17 01-17-2017

“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.” ― Fitz-James O'Brien

Day 18 01-18-2017

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it. 
~ Robert De Niro

The Bear surveys his domain (iphoneography) Day 19 01-19-2017

Some days I want to get in a car and drive as far and as long as I can. Day 20 01-2017

A day in history. So proud to be present. 2017 - The Women's March on Washington Day 21 01-21-2017

Photography & prose by Terry Rowe.

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Thank you for your interest in this work.

The Second Quarter of 2015, A Sampler of Photographs

I'm working on my fifth year of a 365 photography project. Every day, I make a photograph.

A photograph a day, marks the year, the passage of time - a kind of visual diary.

Today marks the end of the second quarter of the year...half-way through 2015.

April, May, and June have been the quarter of spring. Spring, when the earth awakens from the cold dark winter, and growth is expected, demanded. Spring appears to be a gentle unfolding, but it is a hard, sometimes brutal process.

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, 

it must come completely undone. 

The shell cracks, its insides come out and 

everything changes. 

To someone who doesn't understand growth, 

it would look like complete destruction. 

~ Cynthia Occelli

 Following is a sample of the photographs for April, May, and June.

"If Only You Knew"

While spring is taking over the days, I try to hold it still for a moment.

Krisna Selfies, a different kind of blooming

"Don't Stop Believing"

Bleeding Heart, back-lit by the rising sun

Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear. ~Rumi
Between the storms,

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent. ~Rumi
Dogwood

Cookie Fortune: Suppose you can get what you want...

"Dust Cries Out," sculpture by K Swenholt

Full Moon in Scorpio, Potomac River

Flyover, Washington, DC. B-29, Superfortress, a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II

A worn old suitcase, for sale in a thrift shop.

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Five Christmas Eves

Christmas Eve 2014. My fifth year of a 365 photography project is winding to a close. The interesting thing about a 365 project is that I have a photographic record for each day of each year.

Easy to recall what I was doing, thinking, feeling when I have a visual record representing the day.

Today I looked back through Christmas Eves past - 2010 through 2014.
 

2010 - Alexandria, Virginia

Paperwhite bulbs, all setup.

I love to have blooming flowers
and green plants to carry me through the winter.

2011  - Nashville, Tennessee

Visited a cemetery and photographed the beautiful monuments, it was a peaceful, quiet interlude to the day's activities.

2012 - At home in Alexandria, Virginia. I had the day off so took a drive out into the country and visited the lovely village of Paris, Virginia. It was a cold, foggy day with light snow falling.

2013 - Nashville, Tennessee. Portrait of Snuggles, a female cocker spaniel, approximately 11 years old. Companion to my brother-in-law.















2014 - Alexandria, Virginia. A candle burning in the night/

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Dreams and Exercises

The clouds lay low and the air is August thick with humidity. I waded through the morning, dragged down by the lingering threads of the night's dreams and looking for inspiration.

I decided to complete a photography exercise as a way to keep working on my 365 project, and doing work, my work, would help me shake the dreams.

The Exercise:
Stand in the center of a room, or wherever you happen to be.  Make photographs only of subjects that happen to be within 15 feet (or 10, or 5) of where you’re standing.  Give yourself a time limit. Exhaust all possibilities. Get as many images as you can using only that area before moving on.  This kind of exercise forces you to really look at things and work to compose interesting images.

I chose my basement, aka "studio," as a room to start in; and I gave myself 30 minutes. I struggled with the light and spent a lot of time worrying over composition.

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Overview of a Week of Photography (Week 6)

 Week 6 of my photography 365 project started with a morning ice storm after a night of bitter cold. When I did venture out the temperatures and just barely climbed over freezing - and yet the ice was melting. The sound of the ice melting from the trees sounded like rain fall. I stopped by a field of thistles to get this picture.

I think I'll end up with a whole series of these abstracts based on the stains of snow salt on stone. I see a different world every time I look at them.

The weekend included a trip to Richmond, Virginia - and an afternoon in Carytown yielded this glimpse at a secret garden.


















And, if visiting Richmond, I must make time to visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I'm still working on capturing the perfect picture of Chihuly’s Red Reeds at the museum.

Back to indoor studies. Keeping flowers in the house help to remind me that spring will surely return.

A rare abandoned building in the neighborhood. It is a bit of a mystery that in this urban, densely developed neighborhood, a building sits empty and abandoned.

Wrapping up the week with another salt stain abstract. This particular abstract was modified by creating a mirror image of the image. I do this by splitting the image in half in Photoshop and putting two of the same halves together to create a new image. It's a fun technique to play with.













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Overview of a Week of Photography (Week 5)

 In the fifth week of 2014 cold weather prevailed with one brief day of blue sky sunshine. A week of work and a weekend spent in the vicinity of Charlottesville - visiting the beautiful (and empty) Swannanoa estate and the downtown Charlottesville mall. As always a chance to get away from the daily routine is refreshing and a road trip is just the thing to shape up a week of routine and sameness.

 Patterns of ice seem to emanate light and hint at other worlds.

Feathers in a dream catcher catch the last light of a setting sun.

This is a favorite window for the late afternoon light, diffused through painted glass. A fringed shawl and a sea shell collected during warmer weather complete the tableau.

Swannanoa Palace
read more about Swannanoa here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swannanoa_%28mansion%29

 A red barn sits high on a hillside farm, a punctuation mark against the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Every day calls for a little magic, a collection of colorful antique tins and two cheerful ceramic birds.

Patterns of light and dark, depths hinted at and secrets held. Winter at once exposed and hidden.













And so the week is bracketed by the cold blue brilliance of ice and by the patterns revealed by the salt stains left behind when the ice is gone.

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