Surface water
Affluent surge
Late downstream
Rain water does not drain well on a large sandbar landform. Such a low wet-area germinates a range of distinctive vegetation and attracts a particular variety of birds and other wildlife.
“Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.” – George Eliot
Different world
Contact knowledge
Wonderful wonderment
Abstraction builds formidable understanding.
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M.C. Escher
Water transmitted
Low sun angle
Early morning
Seeing things in the moment and trying new capture techniques keeps life interesting.
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” – John Lubbock
Littered beaches
Civilization seed
Bitter future
Some discarded refuse remains in the ecosystem for a long time.
“The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.” – Stewart Stafford
Distinct head
Bilateral symmetry
Mantle and arms
Colorful discarded bait temporarily decorates the beach.
“Anything that will bite a hook can be caught with squid.” – Dawn Aylesworth
Rise and fall
Ebb and flow
Unceasingly scintillating
A new month and a new image series make their formal introduction. Different aesthetic implementation can yield different experiences of place.
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” – Robert Wyland
Unique wisdom
Progress evolution
Determination path
Fast reflexes assist in capturing bird flight.
“In flight, the Great Blue Heron curls its neck into a tight “S” shape; its wings are broad and rounded and its legs trail well beyond the tail.” – John Fitzpatrick
Material glimpses
Empirical dynamism
Traverse smooth surfaces
Walking around the lake reinforces the vivacious nature of transitional boundary regions.
“Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.” – Edwin Powell Hubble
Apparent rest
Low entropy
High order
Working to challenge entropy, I favor diptychs that primarily relate as cohesive visual units that are greater than the sum of their component parts.
“If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement.” – Sean Carroll
Continuous multiplicity
Rhythmic organization
Of the whole
Instantaneous impressions of an ever changing vista reinforce the mysteries of natural forces. A present contraction leads consequently to a future expansion.
“But the fact is that each increase of stimulation is taken up into the preceding stimulations, and that the whole produces on us the effect of a musical phrase which is constantly on the point of ending and constantly altered in its totality by the addition of some new note.” – Henri Bergson