Happy Tuesday! To start off the second chapter of my new improved blog I am going to take a couple of days to post a few of my all time favorite pictures and add quotes to them. Yes, I did do this a few times over the years but this time around I am going to spend a little more time on them and maybe print some out for sale. I have 24 memory cards which hold anywhere from 400-2000 images on them, they are all full or very near full. Six years of wandering into the woods or around town snapping pictures and each picture has a story. Now there is no way I can tell the story of  all my pictures and frankly well over half of them don’t make it past my eyes because of poor quality, bad focus, etc. So far I’ve highlighted maybe 600 or so in my 900 plus posts over the last five years and that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. I want people to see Nature the way I see it, always beautiful and always full of wonder. I can look at the same tree everyday for the rest of my life and find something new or interesting about it each and every time. A single blade of grass has many sides of beauty to it as does a spider web, which is the theme of today’s picture. I’ve posted a few spider web images but not many for one reason, they are harder than Hell to get a good picture of and I know I’ve said that before as well but it’s very true. This particular photo which I took back in February or March of 2014 at the Apostle Islands Marina in Bayfield, Wisconsin took well over a half hour and 100 attempts to capture. It may not be perfect but it is these kind of shots that I love to take, the angles, areas and items that most people take for granted or ignore at all. I never knew a spider web could be so intriguing; the shape was so typical of a web yet so original. I knew the little eight legged arachnid that did it was doing it for survival but to me it was a work of art and I thought he was pretty cool that he had the talent and ability to do that everyday if he wanted, every millimeter of his web a silk strand connecting a masterpiece.

 

     That’s why I put this quote from Picasso with it: “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place, from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”

Thank you Mr. Picasso for the inspiring words and thank you very much Mr. Spider for making this picture possible. Have a great day.

…………………………PEACE…………………………………