hacking bananas, south St. Louis, photograph by Erik M. Lunsford
Every fall, proprietor Joseph Waeltermann of the Southside Garden Stop in south St. Louis City chops down his hardy banana trees in anticipation of the winter season. Waeltermann will mulch over the chopped remains and wait until spring, when the trees will grow again.
Having learned gardening [...]
While it’s sad they have only shadows to gaze at, at least the prisoners in Plato’s cave where I’ve been holed up working these last few weeks are accommodating. A number of projects nearing the point of overdue all hit center stage like a trapeze artist in a ring of elephants. At least by the [...]
Birds of a Feather, West Palm Beach, FL, Photograph by Erik Lunsford
Lost & Found is an occasional series of archived photographs that haven’t been published and deserve a second chance for eyes.
No, it’s not a speck of dirt on the camera’s imaging chip, but rather the gorgeous photograph of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope during transit in front of the sun, courtesy of astrophotographer Thierry Legault, who traveled from Paris to Cape Canaveral to catch these fleeting photographs using his Takahashi refractors for large [...]
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Posted 23 May 2009
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Feather in the sand, Stuart, Florida, photograph copyright Erik Lunsford
The Day is Done
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness [...]
It’s amazing, when you actually ponder it, how quickly time passes. The meeting of two eternities, past and future, as Thoreau would say, is so undoubtedly fleeting. Three weeks ago, I embarked upon a cross-country trek to Jupiter, Florida, on assignment for the Post-Dispatch to cover the St. Louis Cardinals during their spring training. Possibly [...]
Just when I emptied the last remaining grains of sand from my camera bag, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is sending me back to Jupiter, Florida, for three weeks to cover the St. Louis Cardinals during their spring training workouts and pre-season opener at Roger Dean Stadium. If you’re inclined to follow, I’ll be posting daily [...]
Hollywood Beach, Florida, photograph copyright Edward Linsmier
Geoffrey Hiller at Verve Photo has a nice quote and photograph from Edward Linsmier, a photographer who I admire for a strong sense of storytelling and rich documentary work. See more of Linsmier’s beaches at his website.
“…It’s a project about more than just the beach; it’s about why people [...]
toy gator on the dashboard, southbound I-255, Illinois
Part of the lost and found series, this photograph was taken in the last few minutes of our drive from Florida to Missouri last year. This little toy gator, found on the ground at a Florida rest stop the day I moved down for my first job at [...]
Thanks to a schedule change and a holiday, I am enjoying a four-day weekend. One of the daily activities separate from the piles of dirty laundry is a strict regimen of absolutely nothing. It’s necessary that we sometimes hit the veritable “reset” button. And although we’re tuned to be on the go constantly, the uneasy [...]