fine art photo Saxon Holt M'eyes series

M'eyes Tapestry - Weeping Crabapple After the Rain, November

I promised myself I would complete a portfolio of images documenting my perceptions after the detached retina.  There were a good number attempts to do this with my G11 camera in the first months after the surgery.  I never got around to working on very many of them.

These photos are the weeping crabapple tree, ‘Molten Lava’ just outside my office door.  (Click on the photo to see a larger view.)  As I walk out of the office and look into the lower garden, past the variegated Rhamnus and toward the autumnal orange foliage of Cotinus ‘Grace’, the red fruit of the crabapple move in relation to the shapes beyond.  My hyper acute perception that I don’t have depth perception makes me see these red balls of fruit as if they were a cel film overlay in an animation studio. [click to continue…]

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Dusk, Blackwater Pond

December 31, 2011
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Blackwater Pond in the Cape Cod National Seashore, seen here at dusk last October, is rendered using computer manipulation of the digital file.  There was a time, and I can define that time more precisely: before my vision was altered with the series of retina operations, when I would seldom use obvious manipulation on my [...]

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Seeing Slices

November 30, 2011
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I am baffled by what I sometimes see. I will slap my face looking at a scene and wonder why am I not seeing what I expect to see.  The Tupelo tree (Nyssa sylvatica) in my front yard commands attention when it comes into fall color, and I expect to be amazed every year.  I [...]

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Dawn at the Cape

October 29, 2011
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Sometimes the less said about the creative process, the better.  Sometimes I just want to do my work and move on. If you like this computer altered photo of dawn at the beach in North Truro during my recent trip to Cape Cod, I will be most pleased if you stop reading now. Here is [...]

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Tapestry Swirl

September 22, 2011
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Drifting through Beth’s garden in the quiet still morning I was unsure whether I would take any pictures.  I just wanted some time to appreciate her marvelous Oregon garden so full of choice plants and foliage textures.  Before you take a decent picture you have to see it; and I am unsure of my vision [...]

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Dave’s Shell

July 27, 2011
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What the heck is this ? I am not sure I even want to explain.  Ask the eminent photographer David Perry.  We are trading gifts and challenges.  I brought him some colorful Witch Hazel leaves last fall and he hung them on a clothesline.  Mr. Perry’s post. He had wonderful color to work with, many [...]

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A Blur is a Blur

July 15, 2011
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I don’t know where the blurriness of my left eye has led me.  Did I “see” these blurry water reflections, or did I just get lucky ? Standing by the edge of this pond in Mettawa, Illinois late in the afternoon of a long day of shooting, I felt an unwelcome wind pick up and [...]

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Maple Seeds

May 18, 2011
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It is somehow appropriate that I renew Mental Seeds with a post about seeds themselves.  Seeds hold the promise of renewal and after months of insignificant distractions and artificial deadlines I need to re-invigorate. My left eye continues to be blurry, now with a cataract resulting from all the surgeries for the detached retina.  In [...]

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Madrone Berries

March 7, 2011
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My vision in the left eye is still quite blurry.  Unless I really concentrate on what I am seeing, my right eye dominates and I simply have a hazy sense of looming weirdness.  And unless I stick my head up real close to something, color washes out. So to see these Madrone berries I stuck [...]

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Grace in Tapestry

February 16, 2011
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As I was poking around my garden last fall, adjusting to my vision and letting the new wonders reveal themselves to me, I decided to keep my big smokebush, Cotinus ‘Grace’. It is a monster of a shrub, every year growing way beyond its allotted space in my mixed border.  Until last November I had [...]

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