Island Hotel, Cedar Key

I just returned from an overnight trip to Cedar Key.  It was a great visit.  The weather was perfect, in the 60’s and sunny.  I really like the way my street now looks with the new sidewalks, downright ‘upscale.’  That together with the wonderful board walk going out to the little park behind the cemetery, has really improved the neighborhood.  Now there are also two coffee shops in town.  Unfortunately I have not had a chance to try them, but it is a delight to know they are there. One of them is in ‘The Barefoot Artist” gallery, right on the main street, with tables out front and in the side yard.  I will take some pictures next time I am there, and post them.

This morning, with Mike Leiner’s generous help I was able to hang prints of the below images in the Island Hotel. I am delighted to have them up there, and really appreciate that the owners, Stanley and Anyd Bair are so willing to let us exhibit in their great dining room.

“Suwannee Dawn & the Tarnished Mirror”

[Pigment ink print]

“Southern Cross”

[Pigment ink print on silver leaf]

“Oyster Planting”

[Pigment ink print on silver leaf]

Dining Room – Island Hotel

WaterWomen, Bicycle Diaries & The Rings of Saturn

Creative spurts come in wondrous ways. This morning I stopped by the Leon County Library to pick up  David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries which I had requested.  I was totally intrigued by the book when I read that he had been riding his bicycle literally, all over the world.  In the acknowledgment to the book he mentions W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of  Saturn as an inspiration. And also that he had started to blog his travel and tour diary. Somehow this got me to thinking of my WaterWomen ‘book to be’ and that I simply must finish putting it together.

So, now I am going out on a limb once more by blogging about it, and posting screen shots from the layout.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall…”

Hmm, on my screen the image comes out a bit green, when I click on it to go to the silghtly bigger version, it looks better.

New web site

Here is a link to the new website I am developing.  I would appreciate it if you could take a look and give me feed-back.

Warning: It changes from day to day.

“I’m afraid it means leaving you…”

Another of my text/photo images – see post below.

v3 Tallahassee Pecha Kucha Night

1998project

This coming Thursday we will have our ‘volume 3′ Pecha Kucha Night at the 621 Gallery in Tallahassee.
I’ll be talking about my highway 19/98 project, and here is the slide show that will accompany the talk.

“…a moment of doubt”

I have not worked with words on photographs in a long time.  Usually when I do it, I get a so/so feedback to the effect that the words in the image mess up the photo.  However, when I go back to them after they have been filed away for some time, I still like them.  Usually what I do, as I did in this case, is randomly open a book that is laying on my desk and scan the page to see if I can find a phrase that I think applies.