This is not a subject I envisioned myself photographing. Growing up in Southern California, ice plant was everywhere, from freeway interchanges to residential hillside groundcover. Usually it’s just a big patch of green with the occasional hint of orange and yellow. It’s also an invasive species brought from South Africa to fight erosion over 100 years ago. But apparently, when it’s dying off, it gets interesting. The scene above caught my eye while my youngest daughter and I went on […]
A few weeks ago I posted this image not sure about what to share about it at the time. I had no intentions at that moment to make this follow up a Thanksgiving post, but thinking about it now it does seem a bit fitting. How do you approach gratitude while still grieving loss? I didn’t even set out to make this composition associate with loss when I shot it, but as I was fumbling around in processing this piece […]