Richard Wanderman Photography

Mountain Laurel in Sun

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:27 +0000

Washington, Connecticut. I took a walk in the Steep Rock Preserve today and found a new path that led me into a deep forest with a lot of blooming mountain laurel. It was cloudy as I started but just as I entered the densest part of the forest the sun broke through and lit up a small area.

Hauser Bridge

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:11 +0000

Washington, Connecticut. The Hauser Bridge crosses the Shapaug River within The Steep Rock Preserve. It's a cable suspension bridge with towers and two cables draped between them and attached to the center of the bridge.

The Steep Rock Land Trust is a local version of The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit group that through donations, buys up large tracts of land and keeps it wild for community use. I've been a member of this group for a while, they do good things and I'm glad to have places like this close to me for both walking, kayaking, mountain biking, and of course, photography.

Mid-morning ice on trees

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:28 +0000

Warren, Connecticut. I was out early this morning running an errand and stupidly left my camera at home. I saw this incredible view, ran home for camera and got this image, no doubt about an hour or two too late.

Feed Corn Gone By

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:34 +0000

Warren, Connecticut. This field of feed corn didn’t get harvested and will be plowed under in the spring. It makes a nice contrast to the ice on the trees and snow on the ground so I’m delighted our neighbor, a dairy farmer, didn’t get to it.

Development

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01 +0000

Above San Bernardino, California. On initial approach into LAX we banked hard over a housing development. Each of the grid squares looks like a self-contained neighborhood and each neighborhood has similar street patterns. One can even see the future street patterns mapped out on the developments just being laid out. I realize this is common in the western United States but there's something unsettling about it, like a self-replicating organism, spreading.

Emily Doing Firefly

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:30 +0000

Kansas City, Missouri. Emily Darling doing Firefly pose in front of a mirror in her yoga studio.

Nuthatch with seed

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:54 +0000

Warren, Connecticut. Nuthatches are my favorites of the birds on our feeders. They’re the only bird that can walk straight down a tree although like woodpeckers, they’re insect eaters as well as seed eaters.

You can see how awkward this dude is on the feeder perch, his claws are really grasping to stay on.

Chickadee with seed

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:10 +0000

Warren, Connecticut. More than any of the other birds on our feeders chickadees seem to have little problem with me standing ten feet away taking pictures. I suppose food trumps fear when the nights are getting colder and winter approaches.

Francine Gray's Globe Thistles

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:33 +0000

Warren, Connecticut. I've been driving by this group of globe thistle flowers in front of the author Francine du Plessix Gray's house for the past week and finally stopped to shoot them. The group of them looked like it might lend itself to long lens impressionism. Maybe us long lens shallow depth of field painters will start a new art movement: "compressionism."

Dogwood Gone By

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:23 +0000

Warren, Connecticut. I spent an hour photographing beautiful, perfect dogwood blooms, and then I ran across this old one going by. Some might say that young, beautiful flowers are the thing, but give me old flowers going by; they have character and are much more interesting to photograph.