2022: Year in ReviewFirst with the good. It was a tremendously productive year. I processed, catalogued, and keyworded over seven hundred new images. Nearly two per day on average. In the field, I connected more intimately with the landscape. I found new (and...
2020 was nuts! I don't need to repeat what all of us have already lived--it was different, to say the least. My bubble included others: we climbed all over each other; we participated (willing or unwilling) in each others teleconferences and online seminars; we...
As I write this in late December, my area of Northern Virginia is but a sprinkle of rain from being the wettest year on record (Update: we got the extra rain and we broke the record). 2018 was wet. The damp certainly had its effect on annual blooms and seasonal...
Every June I travel sure-footed along the Appalachian Trail, up and over the open, grassy meadows of the Roan Highlands seeking showy pink seasonal blooms of Catawba Rhododendron. My anticipation drives grand visions of large stands of heavy,...
YEAR IN REVIEW 16 Memories for the Year 2016 Mark VanDyke, Photographer 7 December 2016 This year more than any before I began to understand that it's not about the image for me personally. I stopped obsessing about getting the image or wondering about how I'm going...
Here it is, 2014 boiled down to fourteen photographs. You would think that reducing a year into fourteen photographs would be difficult because that's too few to represent such a vast amount of time. In reality, it was really difficult to choose fourteen photographs...