These Pines are amazing trees. New comers to the area, as compared with the ancient Cypress, the Pine root system has adapted to the extreme wet/dry conditions of Everglades. Even being able to endure the regions hurricanes.
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Liberty State Park and a Closed Station Platform
Liberty State Park, New Jersey
The story of working on the cover art for Laurence Hart’s new album Closed Station Platform.
After watching “Joe Strummer – The Future is Unwritten” I began to think about how much music was an influence on my early on in photography. After listening to “all lost in a supermarket” I did a shoot with my friends on a shopping run in college. (Largely due to the fact that the photo essay had a deadline of the next morning and I had no day light left….and oh I was hungry.)
Not just the music and lyrics but the photography that went along with an album.
Anton Corbijn’s work with U2 on the Joshua Tree was huge…..here was black and white landscape and portrait work helping to shape the theme of the album.”
This is on my mind because I’ve been working with Laurence Hart on his new Album, Closed Station Platform. Larry has been great to work with letting me listen to his early demo’s so I could get a feel for the album and giving me free rein on the cover art. Turns out I had the perfect shot, a Closed Station Platform, Liberty State Park….a place where many would enter America proper for the first time after getting off the boat at Ellis Island. Coming full circle….a shot made during those early days when Anton Corbijn, U2 and Joe Strummer influenced my thinking and creativity.
Live Oak Covered in Spanish Moss
Live Oak Covered in Spanish Moss
Last week I had the pleasure of shooting with photographers Raymond Gehman and Greg Matthews. Raymond has worked for National Geographic for many years and has had the cover 3 times. He’s always encouraging and it’s impossible to have a “bad day shooting” with him around. If you want to learn from one of the masters check out http://www.raymondgehman.com/ for upcoming workshops. Greg is one of the hardest working wildlife photographers I’ve ever met. Drive, passion and energy combined with talent make Greg a Wildlife photographer on the rise. Check his latest work out on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregmatthews
The Live Oak was planted by Spanish Explorers for use in ship building because of the curved branches and strength of the tree. Spanish moss an air plant “likes” to grow on Live Oaks because the tree has a high rate of “foliar mineral leaching.
The band Against Me has a song “Spanish Moss”…..”Look into the Spanish moss. Let your mind conjure up old ghosts. Ride your bike through lost Florida streets.”
That’s how I felt on Dinner Island Ranch. Located on the southwestern end of Lake Okeechobee the Dinner Island Cattle Ranch is in the middle of nowhere. An old Ranch owned by the State it leases the grazing rights. If you end up out there keep an eye out….if you are luck you might just have a Florida Panther cross your path.
Mesa Arch, there and gone.
Mesa Arch 2001
Mesa Arch 2008
Minus the little Mormon Tea fellow that had been waving in the winds at me.
Canyonland’s NP guessed that the Mormon Tea plant’s demise was from high traffic around Mesa Arch. Mormon Tea also known as Cowboy Tea or Tuttumpin by the Paiute people. Is a plant from the Ephedra genus. A settlers brew with a kick. Native peoples utilized its medicinal properties for stomach disorders, headaches and fevers. It’s most colorful common name is Whorehouse Tea.
Fall in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Fortune Pond. Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Near Seattle. Washington State.
One of my favorite places on Earth. Imagine the smell of a baking blueberry pie for miles.
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