This is Jasper Surya (his friends and keepers call him Wally...after Alfred Russell Wallace)
Wouldn't this make a nice presidential portrait in the White House Gallery.
Vote Wally. No more melancholy.

We can only cut away so much.

#playingwithmyfood #arttherapy

Feeling very twisted this morning

#arttherapy

Who needs a guard dog when you can have a guard cactus

This door has a secret

Would you?
Of course you would.

Love a corroding wall.
Hate a corroding country.

New thought: lets augment banging our heads against (beautiful) walls with banging on our elected representatives' doors.

#wabisabiwednesday

A new wall to bang my head against.

Making a melodramatic tragicomedy with cranberry beans.
(cue the ominous music)

If you listen carefully, you'll hear the sounds of fiendish glee.

#playingwithmyfood #cranberrybeans #stilllife

I don't know about you but when I visit places, I like to bring back a pebble or a stone.

P.S. I highly recommend this as a gentle, low impact creative exercise. You'll be amazed what you start to focus and fixate on that will impact your larger photographic practice.

#pebbles #stilllife

Who's next? What's next? What to do next?

#portraiture #portraitphotography

Snacktime?

#playingwithmyfood #foodporn

Coupla objects and a whole lotta feelings. We're gonna need a bigger memory card.

#stilllife #arttherapy

I will bark up any tree, wrong or right.

#trippininthegardenonmiraclegro #palmtrees

Stucko?
Find stucco.

The Orchid Show: Mexican Modernism at the New York Botanical Garden is spectacular

Everybody seems to be draggin’ today.

May your bowl be super;
today and every day.
Your plates, too,

#playingwithmyfood #pregame

We all have (at least) one junk drawer in our homes; where the random thingamabobs, doohickies and whatnots, not to mention the stray rubber bands, paperclips, old scissors and other stuff gets tossed.
Where you may see a spring cleaning project, I see an hour or two of delight with my camera.

So much fishy stuff going on these days...thought I'd throw in a version that is equally eye rolling...but in a totally delicious way.

On a personal note, I need to be marinated more often.

#escabeche #playingwithmyfood

So many feelings in one stoopid week.

#portraiture #bwphotography

Accosted.
Exhausted.
Disgusted.
I miss being flabbergasted.

Even my flowers are pissed.

#trippininthegardenonmiraclegro #showmedisgust #gerbera

I often get to eat truly extraordinary things in my line of work but this...OMG...this is bread made with pumpkin and seaweed filled with uni...this is umami on a whole nother level...this crazy extraordinary revelation might just be an all-time, top 5 "bite."

#foodporn #foodphotography #yayme

An eschatological moment in the monochrome garden.

#momentsinthemonochromegarden #hibiscus #bwphotography #wordsmatter

An agastopic moment in the monochrome garden.

#momentsinthemonochromegarden #hibiscus #bwphotography

A lotus for cocktail hour

#trippininthegardenonmiraclegro #flowerphotography

Bone Broth. Good for what ails ya.

P.S. Stacey makes way better soup than I do. Thank gawd.

#stilllife #clearlyiamnotwell #butnotsick

A numinous, efflorescent moment in the monochrome garden.

#echinopsis #momentsinthemonochromegarden