Category: Photography

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Snowing again

“Snow flurries” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on February 8, 2025 in Williston, Vermont.
“Snowing again:” composed and performed with guitar and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on February 7, 2025.
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Yellow fleece

“Ice pools” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender in Stowe, Vermont on January 26, 2025.

He wore a yellow fleece,

Wherever he might go,

Until the night he vanished,

In the falling snow.

But following his lilting music,

Along the brook’s icy flow,

I found him in the swinging pines,

Radiating in luminescent glow.

SRB – February 2, 2025

“Yellow fleece” composed and performed with clarinet, concertina, and guitar by Sanford Ross Bender on February 2, 2025.
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Wintering in Vermont

“Wintering in Vermont” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender in Stowe, Vermont on January 26, 2025.
“Wintering in Vermont” composed and performed with concertina and guitar on January 29, 2025.

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Giraffes in Iowa

Giraffes in Iowa” composed and performed with guitar and clarinet by Sanford Ross Bender on January 3, 2025.
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Impromptu pilgramage

“Trident Sunset” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on December 15, 2024.
“Impromptu pilgramage” improvised with guitar, electric bass, concertina, and percussion by Sanford Ross Bender on December 18, 2024.

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The questions children ask

“Crescent weir from the steep bank” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on November 28, 2024
“The questions children ask” composed and performed with guitar, banjo, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on November 29, 2024.
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This is why

“Hinoki Cypress” photographed in my garden by Sanford Ross Bender on November 24, 2024.
“This is why” composed and performed with guitar, banjo, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on November 24, 2024.
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Missing Maine

“Autumn magnificence” in Baxter State Park, Maine photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on Sunday, October 6, 2024
“Missing Maine” composed and performed on guitar by Sanford Ross Bender on November 15, 2024
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The barest of minimums

“Walking pier” photographed at Harvey’s beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut on October 20, 2024
:The barest of minimums” composed and performed with guitar and clarinet by Sanford Ross Bender on October 23, 2024

This instrumental may sound plaintive, but the more I listen, start to hear it as the breath of victory that arrives after an exhausting ordeal. It is an “on the road” piece in which the clarinet is only a student rental instrument that I play at a time when coincidentally my recording equipment also happens to not be performing properly. The guitar and clarinet improvise with sympathetic melodies that will never sound the same again; like hearing an invisible owl floating through the mist. SRB

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Goodbye and farewell

“Fort Point bell and light houses, Maine” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on October 12, 2024
“Goodbye and farewell” composed and performed by Sanford Ross Bender with guitar on October 12, 2024.