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Jay Perry | Spring morning light
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I love the way sunlight filters in through the windows in the morning this time of year. The sun gets brighter in April as the weather gets warmer, and it throws beautiful shadows and highlights across the house when it rises. I like to look out the window as the coffee brews, the house still...
on May 12
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The older I get, the more attached I feel to my daily routine. Over the years I’ve hammered my days into a certain shape and flow that works pretty well, all in all. But it also sometimes makes me feel … brittle.
on Mar 20
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I took a short walk the other morning. There'd been rain overnight and all the trees were covered in tiny water droplets. The air was awfully humid. As the sun rose everything dried out and it turned into a beautiful day.
on Jan 2
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Machines, computers, and the in-between
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I got a new camera and it got me thinking about what photography means to me, and how our expectations have changed, over the years, about what a camera is.
on Dec 20
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Making the illustration for Chapter 4 in Nightfall
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Here's some in-progress snapshots of the drawings I did for the 'Landing on the ceiling' illustration. The chapter is about bats' remarkable ability to land upside-down, and I thought I'd make a picture of some bats coming home to roost on the ceiling of their cave.
on Dec 17
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I took a short walk the other evening to stretch my legs and get some fresh air. I love how the light changes at dusk in winter. The cold air is super clear and in the dimming sunlight the landscape gets this low-contrast, subtle blue-purple-pink glow. I can’t do it justice with either my camera...
on Dec 4
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I filled up the last page of my notebook last night, and it was time to start on the new one. I like to make my own notebooks; binding a new one has become a biannual ritual, my dorky way of marking the seasons. But this time I gave in and just bought one off the shelf. Why? I’ve got a lot going...
on Nov 18
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I ran across a book at the library this week called ‘The Comfort of Crows’, by Margaret Renkl. Subtitled ‘A Backyard Year’, it sounded like something I could get into; I love local nature writing in that Annie Dillard-Roger Deakin kind of vein. This one is even better than I’d hoped.
on Aug 15
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The other night, an owl flew right by us! …At least, I think an owl flew by us. We were sitting on the deck, watching the sunset, and I looked up just as a big bird swooped around the cherry tree, whisked over our heads, and landed somewhere in the big maple behind us.
on Jun 24, 2024
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The bolt that holds the bridge up
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On Monday this week I went and broke my ankle. I was out for a run, rounding a bend on a busy road. An SUV decided the cut the margin. When I realized they weren’t going to leave me any room, I jumped off the pavement and into the gutter. Unfortunately, I was watching the car and not my feet.
on May 4, 2024
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Good Lord, it’s been a busy couple months. Too many projects. No time left to recharge. I try to remind myself that freelancing work ebbs and flows; it’s flood and drought in unpredictable cycles. You have to be flexible and, I tell myself, remember that things tend to balance out in the end....
on Mar 3, 2024