Occluded Sun and other fables

Occluded Sun #1

Occluded Sun #2

Ground Fog

2024 was fair to partly cloudy on the photography front. I didn’t photograph much by my sixty-year standard. I know photographers who shoot every day of their lives. The photographer’s alleged creed is to do exactly that. I didn't.

So, it’s time for jaundiced look back with one eye and forward with energy and anticipation with the other. It’s time to inform 2025 with lessons learned from 2024 and the eighty-some-odd years that preceded it. It’s time to pass the baton to a promising, energized and exciting New Year. In January we’ll be in Palm Springs and the Mojave Desert for a week or so followed by a meandering route to the Grand Canyon to pick up paintings. The road beckons. It's widely known that I have to hit the bricks to make a pic.

I’m loath to name these images and the ones that will follow next week as Best so will settle with Favorite. There was just one magic moment last year and that was on the road from Petaluma to Point Reyes Station. I dipped down a shallow hill and was greeted by a verdant valley blanketed by fog. Later I found ample fog at Point Reyes National Seashore as well but ten miles Inland was the gift I didn’t expect to receive. The two glaring sun shots were to be titled in part with the word 'orb.' Then a clever friend used the term 'occluded' to describe the top image. And now I will do the same. Thanks, Jamie.