A WINTER COAST

Beach 1, February 2009

I thought I’d celebrate the 1 year anniversary of this blog with a little WCW. I’m sure he wasn’t thinking about spruce, but what the hell, other parallels might find their home here.

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

-William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees

Details:
Windformed Spruce, Beach 1
5×12 camera, 183mm B&L Series V Protar

Beach 1, February 2009

This is a revisit of an earlier photograph,  this time looking north.  This one nags a little more than usual; I like many of the elements but it’s missing something as a whole. I’m posting it because it won’t occur to me what that might be until I do. But it does represent what I like most of the coast here- an astonishing sense of light and brightness always battering at the edge of an immovable darkness like some terminal meridian, a storm of light struggling against the impenetrable treeline.

Details:
Bluffs at Dusk, Beach 1
5×12 camera, 150mm Emil Busch WA Aplanat