We can’t spend all our time playing on the tubing run. We must spend some time experimenting with our cameras. Scott Thomas has posted a new photo challenge over at Views Infinitum.
White.
I can hear Jack Bodis groaning already. It’s enough that we have to live in it. Do we have to look at it too? Ah, but there are many ways to fulfill the assignment, and even in January not all of them involve Wintry Mix. This is my sketchbook of possibilities, all gathered in the space of ten minutes inside my house or on or near the deck.
My friend Betty Lurie is a studio potter who uses many different white glazes on her porcelain. She can see so many things in “white” that it would make your head spin. So, it turns out, can I, though my thoughts tend toward the metaphorical. In any case, it’s an absorbing indoor game, and that’s what we need in the cold months. If you’d like to play, you can read up on the assignment at Scott’s site, and then either post on your own site or Flickr or some such or get in touch with me and I’ll help you put up your own post on Torch Lake Views, where denizens of the Township (actual or virtual) are always invited to help whitewash the fence.
Torch Lake Views 
Fee
January 21, 2010
Just when our landscape has gone back to normal colours, as well. All the snow is now gone, the snowdrops are poking through the soil and will soon be followed by the crocuses and daffoldils. I can’t wait for the blaze of colour that signifies the winter is on its way out!
Give me a few more years, and I’ll be able to guarantee white all year round, if only on my head. Thanks, of course, to my lovely daughters!
Gerry
January 21, 2010
We have months of winter to get through, and February is usually the coldest. I remember a welcome patch of white in springtime, though–arbutus. It’s a pretty little flower, but best of all is the fragrance. I long to see arbutus again, but it seems pretty scarce.
Scott Thomas Photography
January 21, 2010
Nice examples, Gerry. Looking forward to seeing what you end up with.
Thank you for the link and be careful out there! 🙂
Gerry
January 21, 2010
I, too, look forward to seeing what I come up with, Scott. I’m often astonished at the things that pop out of my overactive imagination.
Anna Surface
January 21, 2010
Say, I like the different views of White! I especially like the furry ones. LOL And the trees are oh so lovely. White indeed. 🙂
Gerry
January 21, 2010
Thank you Anna. I like the furry ones myself.
giiid
January 22, 2010
I like your increasing collage making, now you expand by making sketchbook collages too. I wonder what you will come up with next…?
I love the header photo!
Gerry
January 22, 2010
Thank you, Birgitte! I think what I will come up with next is collaborative collage, with words. I’m glad you like the header, too–the one as you write is the ice mountains on Grand Traverse Bay in January 2010–who knows what it will be in the spring! I think I’m going to post all the headers I’ve used on Flickr or maybe on a special page on TLV so people can sort out these references . . .
Carsten
January 29, 2010
In fact this fine mosaic is a contribution to Scotts assignment. But it seems as if you’re going to post one more.
I can’t wait.
I enjoy reading your posts – when I have time. You always forces me to think twice – at least.