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This is the photograph of the underside of the Cupola atop the Cape Henry Lighthouse, in Virginai. This is an experimental image. I didn't have a tripod with me, and I didn't have a wide enough angle lens to capture the entire shot, so I took sectional photographs of the whole thing. However, I moved the camera too much between shots, so the photomerge software I use couldn't match the shots, and when I tried to minimize the discontinuities, I was unable to produce a seamless result. So, as a former programmer, it was quite natural to declare a bug an unplanned feature, and make discontinuity a theme of the photo. I added the disjointed outer window panes, and used some colorful effects to make them look shattered and crystaline. I strengthened the lovely colors of the iron rust and coper verdigris, and merely changed my mental attitude, to celebrate the gaps, the voids, the broken lines, the decay, the aging, and all the defects and patina that comes with aging. Just as the wrinkles...

I'm a photographer, though sometimes I experiment in other media. My mother was an artist, and on school holidays, when she had classes at the art museum, I got to spend entire days roaming the galleries of the Cincinnati Art Museum. My twin sister is an artist, and my father took up photography about the time I did, when I was in college. I'm also a former machine tool programmer, database analyst, and mathematics and physics teacher, and those things undoubtedly have impact on my perceptions as well, as do my Christian perspective and philosophy. My favorite photographic subjects are hummingbirds, other birds in flight, and scenic beauty as seen in wilderness places, the national parks, and rural locations. As my physical health and...