Whimsy | Beth Byrnes

Walk on the wild slide

Posted on May 9, 2015 24 Comments

[Today’s impromptu post was tossed together from a fortuitous confluence of events over the past week. It may be a bit ragged around the edges as I am eyeball deep in learning curves, so bear with me.] California is a quirky, contradictory state. On the one hand, it has sophisticated cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, on the other it is home […]

Another day, another holler

Posted on December 5, 2014 29 Comments

Well, maybe this should be titled “another year, another holler“. We just have a few more weeks in 2014 and I am looking forward to making some minor changes to this blog for 2015. For one thing, I have already begun to use the latest photograph series I am working on, here, so there is some comic relief […]

Alas, through the looking glass

Posted on September 6, 2014 6 Comments

Look out what you wish for. This is the latest chapter in my ongoing love affair with my Nikon camera. It seems none of my passions are of my own choosing. They come seeking me out. Like Alice, when I am smitten with a project, I fall through some aperture and find myself in a wonderland of […]

Doggone rubberment

Posted on October 12, 2013 11 Comments

I was sorting through copies of the New York Times that were to be put out with the trash this week and ran into a full page ad, from Christie’s showing this picture: Here is the ad copy: Christie’s Announces Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange) THE STAGE IS SET TO MAKE HISTORY Be part of this […]