April 2025
I’m back after a long hiatus from my website, both in updating photos and writing. I hope I can keep it up. It’s April 2025 (how did that happen so fast?) so let me jump to April’s photos and hopefully backfill to January, February, March and the cover before we get to May.
Since I haven’t written anything about the 2025 calendar yet, let me first address the concept, something different from my earlier calendars. I realized as I was choosing photos for prior years’ calendars that only landscape orientation photos are ideal for use due to the shape of the calendar. As I prepared prior years’ calendars, I passed on many photos I like and would have liked to have shared because of their portrait orientation. As I thought about the 2025 calendar, and as I didn’t have an obvious and recent body of work to present, I thought about doing diptychs of portrait orientation photos I have made.
The word, “diptych” and its use comes from art history and refers to “a picture or series of pictures (such as an altarpiece) painted or carved on two hinged tablets” or “a work made up of two matching parts” according to Merriam-Webster. In fact, and especially as altarpieces, triptychs may be more common. But I am space constrained; so, diptychs it is! (Thanks to my so many curious friends who’ve confessed they’ve already sought the definition.)
So, my 2025 calendar process was to identify portrait orientation photos I might want to include in the calendar, find photos with a common theme of some sort, cull and choose the final 12 pairs of photos. I probably started with 35 – 40 photos for consideration. I hope you enjoy the ones I chose and how I chose to share them.
The April photos are images of outdoor structures: a sculpture and a building. On the left is a sculpture of a rain drop, “The Drop.” According to Wikipedia:
The Drop is a steel sculpture resembling a raindrop designed by the group of German artists known as Inges Idee [and is] located at Bon Voyage Plaza in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The 65-foot (20 m) tall piece is covered with styrofoam and blue polyurethane. According to Inges Idee, the sculpture is “an homage to the power of nature” and represents “the relationship and outlook towards the water that surrounds us”. The Drop was commissioned as part of the 2009 Vancouver Convention Center Art Project and is owned by BC Pavco.
It was a rainy day when I photographed the drop and I waited patiently for the patron with the umbrella to take a position where he did!
On the right is a portion of the building that is The Museum of the North on the campus of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
The similar cloudy sky in each photo also drew them together to my eye.
Museum of the North – April 2025
The Drop – April 2025