Tag Archives: landscape

concrete trees

Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, photograph copyright Erik M. Lunsford

the day is done

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 [...]

aligned lines

Construction sites have worked their way into my daily assignment schedule lately, given the photo of St. Charles and this week’s addition of a site in Festus, home to a huge development that is returning to building following a break in the ongoing recession. While some on staff may groan about these assignments, I find [...]

downturn

St. Charles County has long bucked the local economy with a wave of new housing and commercial businesses. Now the ongoing recession has hit the county headfirst with a dramatic slowdown in housing starts and unfinished construction. How will economic authorities figure out how to lure new jobs and industries to a city that is [...]

a need now and pdn

Talk about a must have — Photo Progress turned me onto the handmade and portable large format cameras by New York photographer Kipp Wettstein. Wow! I have always had an insatiable personal craving for such a camera — just imagine the possibilities in a completely new dimension of photographic quality. It’s a pity that [...]