green #21, originally uploaded by minervacat. Finding the right work is like discovering your soul in the world. — Thomas Moore Maja picked out this photo yesterday when I said, hey, pick a photo for me to post tomorrow!, and this quote is for her. Whenever I read that line, it soothes me a little….
Category: walk around the lake
tiny tiny flowers
tiny tiny flowers, originally uploaded by minervacat. Currently rocking my world in terms of inspiration: The Blue Hour. Brian lives and works in New York and has been mucking about with a Pentax K1000 recently, and his results have been wonderfully muted and dreamy. Matt Pence. Drummer for Centro-matic and South San Gabriel, producer extraordinaire,…
saxapahaw, nc
saxapahaw, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. It’s a weekend for impromptu road trips to the eastern half of the state, for comfort eating trips to Sonic, for wandering around in small towns in the next county over, for late night phone calls.
twilight, carrboro
twilight, carrboro, originally uploaded by minervacat. stop your parents’ car — i just saw a shooting star — the Avett Brothers, “Laundry Room” This is a track from the Avetts’ upcoming I And Love And You, out in September; I ripped a version of it recorded for an NPR session from video to .mp3 so…
wrightsville beach
wrightsville beach, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sometimes you just have to pick up and drive six hours round trip to spend three hours at the beach.
i do not know what kind of bird this is.
i do not know what kind of bird this is., originally uploaded by minervacat. Still restless and frustrated by my recent shooting, or rather, lack thereof and lack of inspiration thereof. The last ten days of May and all of June should be great, but it’s the getting there that’s killing me. Trying to find…
bynum, north carolina
bynum, north carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. We’ve spent a lot of time puttering around in Chatham County recently — Chatham being the county that abuts Orange County, home to the CH and Carrboro, on the … southeast edge? I have to go look at a map to figure that out — and it’s really…
isle of palms, south carolina
isle of palms, south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. One from the archives; Isle of Palms, April ’08. Nikon F65, Kodak 800ISO. This is where I’d rather be today, but instead of running off to the beach, I’m drinking coffee and applying for day jobs at the local coffee shop. You do what you gotta…
chatham county: haw river state park
chatham county: haw river state park, originally uploaded by minervacat. Wonderfully secret — although, I suspect, not secret to Chatham County teenagers looking to drink illegally — clearing by the Haw River, at the end of a 3/4 mile hike. Although if it were me, I would not swim in the Haw, but apparently some…
nc botanical gardens
nc botanical gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Spent a pleasant hour in the North Carolina Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon. Everything was very green and very in bloom; so much color and so many interesting shapes to see. On Tuesday afternoon, I got laid off — thanks a pantsload, economy! — and I’m looking at it…
brand new kind of photography 