by susan preston | Sep 12, 2021 | Photo of the Day, This Life
Penguin Plunge C As a photographer, I feel an urgency to remind my fellow humans that our destiny is inexorably tied to the fate of the sea. As a scientist, I am motivated by the knowledge that continuing to ignore the failing health of our oceans now, while we...
by susan preston | Jul 26, 2020 | Musings, Photo of the Day, This Life, Travel, Trees
The Enchanted Runway “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at...
by susan preston | Apr 8, 2020 | Photo of the Day, This Life
An Unsheepish Pose What a serious sheep she was. Very very serious. Photo Credits: Sheep Poses by Susan J. Preston, Santa Fe, NM © 2020, all rights reservedTechnical: Fuji XT-3 | XF100-400 Rabbit Antenna Rabbit Antenna “A lifetime may not be long enough...
by susan preston | Feb 11, 2020 | Photo of the Day, This Life
Pretend You Are a Dog “Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never change the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of...
by susan preston | Jul 18, 2019 | Flowers, Photo of the Day, This Life, Trees
Wishes and Promises “The blossoms of the apricot blow from the east to the west, and I have tried to keep them from falling.” – Ezra I took this image back in May when my apricot tree was flowering with wishes of the harvest to come. But unlike the previous two...
by susan preston | Jul 15, 2019 | Musings, Photo of the Day, This Life, Trees
Apricots in the Rain At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it. – Isabel...