Grass – Decaseconds

Dutch Paradise Boating

2024-Sep-042024-Sep-06 adohertyh1 Comment

This bucolic Dutch morning puts me most in mind of Iain M. Banks’s science fiction utopias. That may sound “out of pocket,” but allow me to explain: His far-future settings often feature people who are choosing intentionally charming but low-tech lives doing what they enjoy in beautiful settings. These boaters traveling down the Vechte feel part of the same vein. Though they live in one of the most advanced countries on Earth, they can still choose relatively simple experiences and ways of living.

Breakfast at Sunrise

2022-Jan-172022-Jan-16 adohertyhLeave a comment

A summer sunrise accompanies many breakfasts when horses are involved, but I have to admit that I prefer mine with less grass and more eggs.

Modified Grass Geometry

2021-Dec-17 adohertyhLeave a comment

The summer grass harvest in central Oregon makes for a sudden and dramatic shift in the geometry of the grass… To the viewer, it’s the parallel rows, though to the blades of grass themselves, I have to assume that the sudden shift to being parallel to the ground is more meaningful.

Hilltop Lake

2021-Dec-03 adohertyhLeave a comment

Is there a more bucolic vision than central Oregon at midsummer?

Sunset with No Clouds

2021-Nov-222021-Nov-21 adohertyhLeave a comment

Even with advanced warning, I wasn’t really ready for the eerie gradients of cloudless central Oregon sunsets in the summer; they remind me of those rover-captured images of sunsets on Mars.

Every Detail of the Bay

2019-Nov-042019-Nov-03 adohertyhLeave a comment

My favorite view of the Bay Area (and the view that first let me define the idea of the civilization gradient as an element of my photography) is layered up with loads of detail. Down in Berkeley Lab is the building where I worked on sabbatical, and across the Bay Bridge is the completed Salesforce Tower hiding in the marine layer. The differences, particularly from the last time I showed a very similar shot from the spring, are in nature: the high-altitude clouds have been replaced with empty skies and that rolling marine layer, while the green hills have shifted to a dry, highly flammable tan.

Walk in the Park

2019-Mar-25 adohertyhLeave a comment

The density of Manhattan’s skyline makes me appreciate the political will required to preserve public open spaces in urban areas. A visit to Liberty State Park makes for a delightful break from the “concrete jungle”.

The Center

2018-Jun-072018-Jun-07 emceehammrLeave a comment

Seattle center’s International Fountain in the late spring and summer always reminds me of trips downtown for various festivals.

Headlights and City Lights

2018-Mar-14 adohertyh1 Comment

The foreground of an image from the Berkeley Hills is usually a dark network of trees and trails, but the conveniently timed headlights of a car at Lawrence Hall of Science lit up the dry grasses of midsummer. Their oranges matched the sunset.

Discovery

2018-Feb-08 emceehammrLeave a comment

Shade

2017-Dec-122017-Dec-12 emceehammrLeave a comment

Water Front

2017-May-23 emceehammrLeave a comment

The view of the Seattle’s skyline from across the harbor always gives me the warm and fuzzies.

First Presbyterian

2017-May-182017-May-18 emceehammrLeave a comment

Washington’s Headquarters

2016-May-12 emceehammrLeave a comment

It must have been nice to be Washington, being able to hang out in a nice new house while your soldiers had to hang out in slapped together cabins during the harsh winter in Valley Forge.

Corn Festival

2016-Jan-142016-Jan-14 emceehammrLeave a comment

The simple joys of a summer fair.