Grecian Key
Little of everything
Authentic cuisine
Help needed
We went to eat lunch, but the joint was closed up tighter than two coats of paint.
“Wow..just wow…the decor in here is so 1970’s, that I had to laugh. Tackiest decor ever.” – Jil S.
Madison River
Headwater tributary
Large chalk stream
Morning vibe
The first official photographic stop of the Yellowstone adventure, at a river happening where we all climbed out of the vintage Bombardier Snowbus and blinked in winter wonderment at the dawning scenic splendor.
“You’re effort will be worth the cold.” – Forrest Fenn
One Entangled Evening
Metaphysical vibe
Quantum realm
Mobile in time
While driving in the deep dark of the night, photographing under extreme contrast conditions is temperamental. In the this physical world, as things are moving and active with time, explanations elude while experience must sense and feel.
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” – Richard P. Feynman
Tree Bark
Textured variability
Vertical crests
Intervening furrows
Dominating the Cherry Springs Nature Area south of Pocatello, this trunk is part of the largest and most interesting tree in the Mink Creek Valley. Paranormal researchers are not sure why so much ghostly activity runs rampant here. Reportedly it is typical for visitors to feel like they’re being watched by a spiritual aura.
“The whole area is full of presence. There’s many things going on there.” – Colleen O’Hara-Epperly
Accentuating the Entrance
Generous gesture
Adequate conjunction
Facade orientation
The frontal approach here provides a cheerfully enticing entrance area inviting active participation. All human achievement and future accomplishment involves meaning and intentional intercommunication.
“Grazing light allows emphasis of the textures of wall materials.” – Christian Schittich
Pocatello Electric
Since 1902
Serving Southeast Idaho
Appliances mattresses
Most often such fading, antiquated, painted signs on downtown buildings are remnants of long-gone enterprises. In this case, however, Pocatello Electric is alive and kicking, still generating sparks.
“Our knowledgeable staff will be happy to offer you a great service.” – Mike Vigliaturo
Angular Expression
Physical gesture
Spatial relationship
Viewpoint improvisation
Directly under an architectural embodiment, creative observation is a participatory experience. All aspects of spatial organization can be continually considered, refined, and aligned to serve current and anticipated desires and expectations.
“We forge received parts into meaningful compositions.” – Anne Bogart
View from Campus
Points of interest
Rugged landscape
Scenic resources
The Rocky Mountains are a prevalent feature always punctuating the lower Portneuf River Valley. Being on a picturesque campus accentuates the intellectual environment.
“Being in the mountains is good for the soul.” – Outside Magazine
Old Barn
Turn silver gray
Standing in weather
Seasons affirmed
A familiar venerable agricultural structure near the roadway always attracts attention on any trip north. Such residual artifacts persist as temporal evidence to help synchronize evolving cultures.
“Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards.” – Carolyn Jourdan
Indefinite Alternative
Anything else
Otherwise from present
Apart from this
Future concerns tend to dominate present conditions. The aesthetician’s task is often to distinguish events which mediate one circumstance relative to further opportunity. Practice is the most pressing of all strains of experience.
“Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused.” – Cliff Burton