From the Morning

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Apr 102014
 

I had a marvelous time exploring Piney Woods Church Road this morning.  Strange to say, I walked the its length hundreds of times with our dogs before I began this project, and I was bored with it and really wanted to be anyplace but there.  Yet since beginning this project 100 days ago, every day I have found joy and delight exploring this 4/10-mile gravel road.  Today I left my wristwatch at home, and spent an hour and a half exploring the early morning light.  Here are a few more photographs from my day’s adventures.

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Day 100: Mirrors of the Morning

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Apr 102014
 

I lie prone on the damp ground, gazing through a camera lens at drops of dew clinging to blades of grass in the sunlight.  The ground sparkles with minute mirrors, inviting me to pause and reflect.  It is Day 100, and I am part-way along Piney Woods Church Road, on my journey home.

Mirrors of the Morning

Other Worlds

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Feb 262014
 

After the overnight rain, water had collected in the ruts, potholes, and drainage ditches along Piney Woods Church Road.  There was even a thin layer of water on the underside of a giant plastic stock tank just beyond a roadside fence.  The water offered opportunities for all sorts of otherworldly photographs, three of which are below.  The first one was taken in a ditch at the side of the road at the junction with Hutcheson Ferry.  The second is a view of the overturned stock tank.  And the third is a close-up of a pothole colored by Georgia clay.

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Day 53: First Light

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Feb 222014
 

I arrived at Piney Woods Church Road just after sunrise.  I watched first light skim across the tops of the bare pecan trees along the roadside.  And in a small pasture ditch, nestled between a power pole and a guy wire, the scene was mirrored in the water surface.

First Light

Day 49: Surfacing

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Feb 182014
 

On a mild but overcast afternoon in late winter, I pause at a drainage ditch halfway down Piney Woods Church Road.  In my camera, I capture the peculiar world of the water surface — dappled and silvery, a mysterious looking glass containing tree branches, ripples, and strands of grass, bound together by liquid and light.

Surfacing

Day 47: Angle of Reflection

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Feb 162014
 

The roadside ditches along Piney Woods Church Road are drying up.  Until the next rainfall, there won’t be much possibility of reflection photography after today, so I availed myself of the opportunity by taking dozens of images.  The “first place” winner, in my wife’s keen judgment, is this monochromatic image of grasses and a leaf.  I read somewhere that there are no straight lines in nature; that certainly does not hold for this photograph, where the grasses parallel each other or cross at near-perpendicular.  Looking at this picture, I am reminded of what I know of angles, from geometry and physics.  Vertical angles are equal.  The angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees.  The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

Angle of Reflection

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