House III and Other Works from the High

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In a recent post, Five Frames Outside the High Museum 2020, I showed House III and said that I’d expose the deception of House III in a later post. This is that post. While we are waiting for the exposé, I’m going to showcase a couple of other works you can find outside the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

The Invisible Man (Salute)

This is Invisible Man (Salute) by Glenn Kaino (House III, our theme sculpture is in the background) I approached Invisible Man with the “invisibility” aspect in mind. If you stood in front of the sculpture, you saw yourself reflected in polished steel. If you got off to the side a little the reflections of the surrounding area caused the sculpture to disappear. It was an interesting effect. The artist was thinking of a little more.

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Five Frames from the High, 2020

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Reflections of Light

In the last post I showed five frames from outside The High Museum of Art. This time I’m inside and showing two bonus frames as well, because, well, I can. This is a shot of the edge of an untitled work from 2010 by Anish Kapoor. It is a multi-faceted concave dish in stainless steel. I’ve mentioned Anish Kapoor before in this blog. See the next frame for more.

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Five Frames Outside the High Museum 2020

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I visited Atlanta in January, 2020 and had two days to devote to photography. Last week I posted some pinhole photography from the Atlanta Botanical Garden. This week I’m showing some photos from outside The High Museum of Art.

Audience of One

I found this piano and chair in an outside corridor. The concert is about to begin. Have your ticket ready. Seating is limited.

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Five Frames of Pinhole Photos From the Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Pinhole Daffodils

I always wanted to try pinhole photography, so when Thingyfy offered their new Pinhole Pro X 40-60 mm zoom pinhole “lens”, I bought one. It arrived the day before I left for Atlanta and I carried on a trip to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

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The O Bros Do Guadalupe Peak

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El Capitan, left, and Guadalupe Peak (with Cloud) from Highway 62

Preliminaries

For me, it started on October 13, 2018. The occasion was a telephone call from my brother, David. David wanted to know if I would like to go with him to climb Guadalupe peak, the highest point in Texas. I said yes (silly me).

David had wanted to climb Guadalupe Peak for ten years. He was planning to go with his wife, but, for one reason or another, the hike was always postponed. So, as a last resort, he was recruiting his old, fat, out of shape brother to be a cohort in crime.

The climb starts from the Pine Spring campground and goes out 4.25 miles and up 2929 feet to the summit (then you have to get back…). The hike is rated “moderate” in most online hiking sites and people who are, shall we say, less than athletes, have completed the hike. The same hiking sites that rate the hike as “moderate” record the average grade as 8.5% and the peak grade as 45%. Wikipedia says the trail is “stony”. So, nothing that a little extra exercise can’t overcome. Bring on the mountain!

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Dawn at Fulton Harbor

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The Rainbow

During our Big Birding Expedition in December, we stayed at the Inn at Fulton Harbor. The Inn is directly across from Fulton Harbor, which is where you get on The Skimmer for tours of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge to see the Whooping Cranes. The first morning, it was cloudy and the light was interesting. Here are some shots of Fulton Harbor at dawn.

Above is the Rainbow, a shrimp boat waiting with some others to spring into action.

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Five Frames from Paintbrush Alley

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Paintbrush Alley is a project sponsored by Downtown San Angelo, Inc. and Art in UnCommon Places. It’s an alley that has been worked on by over fifty artists to turn the alley into, well, a work of art. The alley’s theme is based on the movie “Giant”. “Giant” was filmed in Marfa, Texas and released in 1956. It starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean.

Last week I posted my “Ode to the OM-1”. This week my five frames were produced with that very same OM-1 using Kodak Portra 400. I had a thirty-six shot roll and blew them all in downtown San Angelo and in Paintbrush Alley.

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Ode to the OM-1

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My second single lens reflex (SLR) camera was an Olympus OM-1. My first was a Nikkormat, which was stolen from my dormitory room not too long after I got it. After some agonizing over the replacement, I decided on the OM-1, not the least because of the size. I wanted a small camera that I could take everywhere mostly for snapshots. I loved that camera. I still have that OM-1, but it suffered through a flood in my basement in New England and its innards are now in poor shape. I recently obtained a refurbished OM-1 and I am a happy camper. Here is my ode to the OM-1.

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The Birds of December

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Whooping Cranes at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

After my NaNoWriMo month of November, I took a little break from posting in December. I wasn’t idle. I worked on New Ring Rising, the second book in my Once Upon a Time in Central Oith series. Kathryn and I also went down to the coast to see whooping cranes and do a little birding. This post is about the birds we saw. Pictured above is a pair of whooping cranes we saw from The Skimmer, a tour boat out of Fulton Harbor, run by Rockport Birding and Kayak Adventures. Captain Tommy took us out for a three-hour tour (remember Gilligan’s Island?) and pointed out birds and points of interest along the way. We have taken the tour several times and never failed to see whooping cranes.

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NaNoWriMo – Updates

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November 30 Final Word Count: 66,016

My November of NaNoWriMo has come to an end. I wrote this at 7:00 am, my writing for the day done, the rest of my day ahead. I’m going hiking later, but for now, I’m done writing. The draft of my novel, Ring War, is done. A vast amount of editing remains.

According to the NaNoWriMo website, I averaged 2200 words per day at the rate of 14 words per minute. This required about 78.5 hours or an average of 2.6 hours per day. Whew!

Would I do NaNoWriMo again? I don’t know. I did it. I got the tee shirt. Maybe I’m done. Right now, I need a break from writing. Ask me again about October 31st, next year.

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