A Baker's Dozen: Foggy Images from 12.31.22

 Images made 12.31.22 in Ringwood, NJ

On the Reservoir (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Shoreline (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Kayak and Bird (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Bird (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Fog Weaving through Trees (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

 Drifting (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

One Man in a Boat (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Blue Kayak (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Bridge (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Fading (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Reservoir Inlet (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Thick Fog (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Ice Line (Ringwood, NJ, 12.31.22)

Slice of Life in Images, Sounds (#SOL15, Day 15)

Tunes in Ears (M.A. Reilly, Boston, March, 2015)

I have been participating in Slice of Life (#SOL15) Challenge for the last 15 days. I thought today I would show what I have been seeing and recording in image through the lens of my camera during the first two weeks.

I made the black and white images in Ringwood, NJ, Newark, NJ, Manhattan, Boston, MA, and Tuxedo, NY.

Enjoy the slideshow. It's 2 minutes.

Through Woods

Images made while walking in fog and rain this past week.

Leaving (Ringwood, NJ, 2013)

A Line of Trees (Ringwood, NJ, 2013)

End of Autumn (Ringwood, NJ, 2013)

Through Woods (Ringwood, NJ, 2013)

Trees in Fog (Ringwood, NJ, 2013)

Foggy Morning

Another foggy morning. Images made at Erskine Lake in Ringwood, NJ.

Patch of Blue (Upper Erskine Lake, Ringwood, NJ. M.A. Reilly, 2013)

Life Guard Chair (Erskine Lake, Ringwood, NJ. M.A. Reilly, 2013)

Convergence (Erskine Lake, Ringwood, NJ. M.A. Reilly, 2013)

Charcoal (Upper Erskine Lake, Ringwood, NJ. M.A. Reilly, 2013)

Center (Erskine Lake, Ringwood, NJ. M.A. Reilly, 2013)

And Heaven's Not Far: Photographic Musing and My Father

This is a lake by where I live.  When the weather turns just a bit cooler, there is almost always fog early morning and on some days I am able to watch the sun burn through that fog.  On the day I made these images it would have been my father's 95th birthday.  I'd like to believe that along with the fog and light, I captured his beautiful spirit.

The landscape shifts, emerges and heaven's not far.

Happy birthday, Da.

Silence (9/2012, M.A. Reilly)

Emerging (9/2012, M.A. Reilly)

 A Touch of Blue (9/2012, M.A. Reilly)

A Bit of Land (9/2012, M.A. Reilly)

Sky and Lake (9/2012, M.A. Reilly)

Suspended (9/2012, M.A. Reilly)

New Photographs: Sunlight

“In the ultimate stillness

Light penetrates the whole realm;

In the still illumination,

There pervades pure emptiness.

When I look back on the

Phenomenal world,

Everything is just

Like a dream.” 

― Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

There was a return of order this last week as my son and husband both made their way back to school and work.  I found myself on Thursday out walking in the morning once again and the sunlight was brilliant.  Here are a few images made that morning. I love how the presence of light alters the ordinary. 

Web (2012, M.A. Reilly)

A  Clearing (2012, M.A. Reilly)

Blue Light (2012, M.A. Reilly)

Phoenix Rising (2012, M.A. Reilly)

Soft Dreaming (2012, M.A. Reilly)

Revealing (2012, M.A. Reilly)

Orange (2012, M.A. Reilly)

Tendrils (2012, M.A. Reilly)