Boggy area
Rhizomatous roots
Long flat leaves
Water and life are tightly intertwined.
“Underwater, they provide a safe haven for tiny fish and attract many of the smaller aquatic creatures that birds and other wildlife feed on.” – Jackie Rhoades
Mostly transparent
Obscuring phenomena
Reflective enrapture
On another visit to the Historic Corolla Park to experience a sunset over the Currituck Sound, conditions initially seem aesthetically unfavorable. But as time goes by, visual potential is revealed.
“Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.” – Suzy Kassem
Every step
Vigorous exertion
Passionate concern
Here is another image from my early morning Ambient Ambulation series. Performing as a dynamic participant of the diurnal cycle, when moving through the landscape using a LED flashlight as supplemental illumination, colors and shapes dominate in the predawn darkness. Like everything else in life, practice and dedication to an enterprise engenders progress.
“Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
Receptive perception
Direct sensitivity
Framed wildness
A wild horse in the Little Book Cliffs looks magnificent in the late afternoon sun.
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” – Aldo Leopold
General structure
Minimal assumptions
Conjugating action
There is a certain satisfaction from extracting the essence of something from only partial details.
“And so the good news is that you can rearrange any subject to learn most of it very, very quickly.” – Eric R. Weinstein
Into the light
Colored shapes
Intricate inference
Every morning episode stands unique in its sensual offerings.
“Thus colored shapes seem to be symbols for some other elements in our experience, and when we see the colored shapes we adjust our actions towards those other elements.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Distant past
Surface incising
Rock art
At the top of my first western slope hike was an ancient message.
“Symbols they were of an era that had gone into the dim past, leaving only these marks, forever unintelligible; yet while they stood, century after century, ineffaceable, reminders of the glory, the mystery, the sadness of life.” – Zane Grey
Things see
Parts of itself
Consequent duration
Landscapes defined within a perceptual frame of reference represent memory posited by immediate sense-awareness.
“Congruence is a particular example of the fundamental fact of recognition. In perception we recognize. ” – Alfred North Whitehead
Vast plateau
Canyon panorama
Towering monoliths
A spectacular and spiritual place at the heart of the world on a day that I wished would never end.
“Do your best for the west, the best for the world, the new day get it going.” – John Otto
Serial character
Temporal relations
Thoughts succeeding
Capturing action at the apex of development, an actual state nature can never return.
“Each instant is irrevocable.” – Alfred North Whitehead