About the banner images

One of the joys of setting up this blog was sorting through digital photos I’ve taken over the past ten or more years and cropping them to fit the strange, horizontal shape of the banner. I don’t think of myself as a visual artist–though I’ve taken ceramics classes for about fifteen years–but in sorting and cropping these photos I worked as if unleashed. A longtime fan of abstract expressionism, I discovered that applying the banner shape turned ordinary snapshots into abstract compositions.

Most of the photos were taken in California and Colorado, where I’ve lived over the past decade, but others come from places visited in Utah, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio. I took all the photos, with a few exceptions: the ones of my ceramic frog and turtle were taken by Steve Buckley of Grass Valley, California. Two photos (the one of a green field next to the ocean–looks like my favorite slope at Point Reyes–and the image of two red shoes in grass) were stock images from the Vigilance theme used on this site.

Please feel free to use and share the photos, and if you do, please give appropriate credit.

–Priscilla Stuckey, PhD, Boulder, CO