The Ones I Like List of 2009 – A Countdown [#1]
a house on a hill – I want to write something really profound about this image, but some days the writing just isn’t there. What can I say? It was an unexpected gift, the sunburst. It was really this glorious. Kissed by the heavens. It was bordering on arrogant, but it wasn’t. It was bordering […]
The Ones I Like List of 2009 – A Countdown [#2]
© 2009 Katya Horner in the quiet – Sometimes not a lot needs to be said about a photo. This is one of those times. Sure I can give you the location – The University of Houston at Clear Lake. I can tell you that the photo was part of a juried exhibition – Xnihilo […]
The Ones I Like List of 2009 – A Countdown [#3]
© 2009 Katya Horner at the woods’ edge – There’s a light at the woods’ edge that often keeps us from going inside. It’s familiar and it’s safe and sometimes it’s pretty darn wonderful. It’s only those with the kind of fictional bravery of a Little Red Riding Hood who manage to enter the dark, […]
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© 2009 Katya Horner another day, another fairytale – Every day is a fairytale when one is “road tripping” through New England during the fall foliage season. I was lucky this past year to have spent eight wonderful days gallivanting about Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, each day with one sole focus – photographing the […]
The Ones I Like List of 2009 – A Countdown [#5]
© 2009 Katya Horner indigo – This past spring I was a birder for second. I loved it. I bought books. I joined websites. I adopted the nickname Western Tanager. I was only an outing in camouflage and a bird-calling class away from growing feathers myself. If it weren’t for a busy work schedule, I […]
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© 2009 Katya Horner I chose i’d like a tree & fog combo with a medium horse on the side because I love horses and fog and trees and quirky, and I love them even more when they are served up together. It really is that simple. Below are a couple of additional horse photos […]
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© 2009 Katya Horner on the battlefield [the story of gettysburg] – One bird on the battlefield of Gettysburg was all it took. Not an ordinary bird, granted, but rather a feathered, farmland Siren, beguiling me into a trance, leading me, with my camera, into a precarious slot. And when all was said (“ouch!”) and […]
The Ones I Like List of 2009 – A Countdown [#8]
cows and branches – I sense fog. Typically. When my senses aren’t particularly keen, I rely on a friendly local weatherman or a handful of trusty “spotters” to alert me to the mist. It’s a rare occasion when I miss a fog day altogether. This past year, however, was all about missing the fog. Either […]
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© 2009 Katya Horner Lights will guide you homeand ignite your bones – ColdplayDowntown Houston – Because I love light — the harshness of light, the softness of light, the color of light, the warmth of light, the mood of light, the utility of light. In its presence and in its absence, it steals the […]
The Ones I Like List of 2009 – A Countdown [#10]
© 2009 Katya Horner the dog days of autumn – Dogs run through fountains. They do. And they love it. Kids run through fountains, too. Sometimes. When allowed. It’s just we, the self-conscious, the adults…it’s just we who tend to deprive ourselves of life’s little pleasures when we deem them “age inappropriate.” On that note, […]