Bare, Ruin'd Choirs: Janette's Brownie

Bare, Ruin'd Choirs: "That time of year thou mayst in me behold/When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,/Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang."  Wm. Shakespeare, Sonnet #73  These photographs of the cottonwood trees of northern New Mexico and the sycamore trees of New York City were made in winter or early spring, when the architecture of their branches is laid bare.  These photographs have an ethereal quality, and several of them were mistaken for pencil sketches when they were on display in the Aspen Gallery in 2014.  One of them, "Janette's Brownie," was shot with a 1940 Kodak Brownie camera; I love shooting with vintage cameras, of which I own several.