Buddha at Crown Beach
The Awakened One, catching the last rays of light at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda. (See this short piece for symbolic insight: Buddha Statues Have Meaning Head to Toe). ©ingrid Taped to the...
View ArticleWasp Art
Wasp Nest – ©ingridtaylar I didn’t see it this way through the viewfinder — the aquarelle tone and texture of this wasp nest, clutching the painted boards. (Just as I didn’t see the pixie face of a...
View ArticleTriumph and Loss at the Albany Bulb
The Albany Bulb -- long my favorite Bay Area example of decay and rebirth -- is an artificial peninsula, created from years of dumping construction refuse into this part of the Bay. When the dumping...
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Everyday Translucence
I was filling up the compost pail and decided the items on my fridge deserved a photographic tribute for the good works they do.
View ArticleHalogen Shadows
Saul’s Deli in Berkeley is an undeniable fave. One of the few things Hugh and I miss from our Los Angeles existence is the old neighborhood deli — with its naugahyde booths and rough-and-tumble wait...
View ArticleThe Mock Snail
This title, The Mock Snail caused the tiniest bit of confusion on Flickr. He's a real snail. It's just that the psychedelic tone rendered by my Raynox 150 lens inspired a Lewis Carroll reference.
View ArticleDroplets
This might be what I love most about my camera: it makes something interesting out of the most banal objects. Here’s where I started . . . with a lonely and neglected patio table getting pummeled by...
View ArticleBay and Beach Flotsam: Brunswick!
Or, for “The King of Them All” . . . Roto Grip! I regularly shoot images of bay and beach flotsam, documenting the end result of our trashy habits. So, when I saw this bowling ball on a beach in...
View ArticleThe Halloween Raven
When I photographed this Common Raven, wind surfing off Ocean Beach in San Francisco, I didn’t realize that new life would continually germinate from this one photo … through my Creative Commons...
View ArticleBeautiful Things in Humble Places
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” ~ Camille Pissarro. I can’t see the world the way Pissarro did, let alone paint it. My own mother creates...
View ArticleA Return to Itten: Days 9 to 12
Today seems like an Itten’s Contrasts kind of day, with rainbows reflected in puddles as the sun dances in and out of Seattle downpour. I started an Itten’s Contrast series on the eve of 2010 —...
View ArticleSpace Needle … by Chihuly
Chihuly glass was the canvas here … the afternoon sun, the painter. A stroll through glass-studded greens at Chihuly Garden and Glass (Seattle Center) exposed the Space Needle for the abstraction it...
View ArticleThe Extended Art of Goose Stipple
After the Snow Geese stippled our little Honda with their version of a Pollack drip painting, I waited a while before heading to the car wash, thinking it would be a waste of resources when the rain...
View ArticleThe Extended Art of Goose Stipple
After the Snow Geese stippled our little Honda with their version of a Pollack drip painting, I waited a while before heading to the car wash, thinking it would be a waste of resources when the rain...
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