Fire and Rain

My “Globetrotting” photo exhibition in downtown Annapolis has just closed, and my latest — “Fire and Rain” at the Chesapeake Arts Center a little outside of Baltimore, has just opened. The title of the show, with apologies to James Taylor (who is still touring at the age of 75, BTW) is a doubly-themed exhibit of 19 photos. Seven of them (plus this video) are storm-themed, all taken during a 2021 storm-chasing trip to Texas and the midwest; the remaining 12 are all volcano photos, mostly of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii.

It’s a very nice gallery space with good lighting and visibility. Here’s the scene:

I was very pleased with the display, and flattered by the opening reception two evenings ago, attended by about 35 people. And now the photos themselves:

“RAIN”

“FIRE” (The first 9 images are Kilauea; the last 3 are from Iceland and Mt. Saint Helens.)

…and that’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past month or two.

Things Are Looking Down

This being a travel blog and all, almost all of my posts are location-specific. This one is a little different. Those of you who have been following the blog for a while know that in the past year I have been enlivening my posts, especially those from Hawaii and Iceland, with my now one-year-old toy, a Mavic Pro drone with a very nice 12 megapixel stabilized onboard camera. This wonderful piece of technology has not only afforded me some beautiful photos but also led to me teaching a course in drone photography at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts (MHCA) here in our hometown of Annapolis. And now I am excited to report that it has led to my having my very first solo gallery exhibition, late this year at MHCA. The show will be exclusively featuring my drone photos, probably about 20 large prints.

So the purpose of this post is to sublimate my excitement by telling all of my followers about this (499 of you as of this writing…. one more and I get raptured to Blogger Heaven), and to give you a preview of the images that I will be exhibiting. I haven’t decided on the final set yet; the show is scheduled for September, though it may slip into early 2020 for complicated reasons that I won’t bore you with. But it will almost certainly include this set (below), many of which have appeared previously in my blog posts. For convenience I have embedded them as a slide show so you don’t have to do any scrolling or clicking.

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Our next actual travel destination will be our annual return to the Big Island of Hawaii for the whole month of February. So stay tuned!