18 July

Fate And The Sheep: The Unseen World, A New Dimension

by Jon Katz
Fate And The Sheep (An IR photo)
Fate And The Sheep (An IR photo)

Infrared photography is about light and perspective, it is called the photography of the unseen,  because the camera sees the light in a way that is beyond the human eye, beyond our spectrum of sight.

Sometimes, looking at these photographs, I see a fusion of night and day, light and darkness, color and the diffusion of light. A new dimension, really, a new way of seeing things. The photographs seem radiant to me, very quiet. Maria says she thinks of the word “hush” when she sees them.

I’ve taken many photographs of Fate and the sheep but in this one, time seems to stand still and we see the way the true light interacts with the world around us. It asks us to see things in a different light.

18 July

The Garden As Art

by Jon Katz
The Garden As Art
The Garden As Art

My friend Deborah Glessner, a photographer and member of the Creative Group At Bedlam Farm, inspires me to try new and different things with my photography. She has been taking some beautiful black and white photos of flowers, and so I went out with my monochrome to try it. I settled on these pansies, lined up in a row. The challenge, of course, is to capture the idea of color without color, and that is a creative thing to try. I’ll keep working on flowers in black-and-white and see what I can do.

18 July

Chloe: Bloody Ear

by Jon Katz
Bloody Ear
Bloody Ear

Chloe’s fly mask slipped off her today while grazing and when we went out to check on her, her ears were bloody from black fly bites. Flies are incredibly wicked on horses, we got repellent and medicine cream on Chloe, it was sensitive and a mess in there, she resisted at first, but she trusts Maria and she started to feel better right away.

Can’t quite figure how this one got off, she may have just rubbed it against the grass. Maria checks Chloe carefully at least twice a day. I give her a hose bath every afternoon or evening. I like watering things.

18 July

Izzy: Studying Me

by Jon Katz
Izzy: Studying Me
Izzy: Studying Me

Izzy is getting over her shyness, she came out of the barn and walked right up to me and gave me a good and close stare. I happily took her photo and she looked me up and down and then went back into the barn. She walked right over Fate, unimpressed. She fits in very well here and her wool was especially beautiful.

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