photography

Edisto Island Storm

A blanket of afternoon cloud cover darkens Edisto Island.

Calm

St Marys River

How many photos of a place are too many?

“Tides and Chance”

Jay Griffiths remembers time “by the sea” at her grandparents’ place as a child:

“We learned about tides and chance, storms and sun, the vicissitudes of what is lost and found, flotsam and jetsam, castaway luck, islands, sea-songs, rings, riddles and pledges. We learned the sense of a clear slate in the renewal of the tide-smoothed sand.”

Without Us

Click here for an animated short of your house without you over the course of 500 years, or here for more images of the home in the first photo accompanied by tracks by William Basinski.

Abide For A While

“There are moments when I find myself so seduced by the life of a place, carrying on in the way it must, that all I want is to abide there for a while.”

-Trebbe Johnson

July 4th Resource Nationalism

Medusa Head Cases

Tillandsia Via Chattanooga

An algorithmic walk (and respite from I75 traffic) leads to a man in a tie-dyed shirt selling air plants alongside a young bearded glassblower at the Chattanooga River Market. It’s curious how much the misplaced tropical plants above resemble the tendrils of captive animals living a few hundred yards away inside Tennessee Aquarium tanks.

Coquinas, Donax variabilis

Love and Lunch

Wisps Over Tomoka State Park

Hello Falco

The fastest animal on earth perched beside a warm stucco wall soaked with a day’s sunlight grooms himself seven floors above A1A. Barred feathers float slowly.

Aquatic Flora

Great Egret, Ardea alba

Lofton Monsters

Time Along Lofton Creek

The towering cypress on the left occupies an eight foot diameter half a mile from Pages Dairy Road in Yulee, Florida. The oldest known cypress in the world (burned in 2012 by a meth addict) was seventeen and a half feet wide and approximately 2000 years old, so this conifer has at least a millennium on any awkward biped rowing below its baobesque branches.