In open flat landscapes there are rare opportunities to catch lovely shadows, long horizons, or OMG contrasts. My fibromyalgia, and advancing age, make me a poor candidate for sneaking out and driving long distances for the off chance on a good sunrise or sunset lighting shot. I’m up past 1 am every night and rarely sleep past 5:30 am. It would seem to leave a lot of time, but most of that is spent in what is known among fibro patients as brain fog. I also have ADD and anxiety. When I do remember what I’m doing, I’m either anxious I’ll screw it up or trying to get three or four things corrected before it all goes blank again. My goal of being the Grandma Moses of photography probably isn’t going to happen. Meanwhile, I’m still here at the end of my road less paved … a few miles from John Muir’s Fountain Lake, and forty five minutes of really crappy road from Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Shack.

I experiment, a lot: textured glass panels, colored papers of all types, bounced lighting, any object or material with potential to refract, reflect, shape or flare light. A big hug to my husband who hauls me around down unpaved roads and holds umbrellas, jackets, or body shades subjects as needed - and says "Yes" to my requests to buy flowers for the garden. You are my rock.

I shoot with vintage lenses, ranging in age from 40 to 68 years old. Using Fotodiox M42-2, PRO, and reverse mount adaptors to Nikon F cameras and processing in DXO/NIK. My favorite Helios KMZ 44.2 58/2 (circa 1956) was retrofitted and sold for the Nikon F by Retro Foto House, a vintage lens specialist based in Ukraine. If you'd like to check on him during the current war here's his link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtiPJOk-fA Thanks for looking.