Burden effect
Pass this way
Transportation flow
Prepare for the inevitable.
“Although reimbursement for pothole damage varies from state to state, and from town to town, you should expect that the claims process will be a challenging one.” – Drivers Ed
Stand on edge
Revelatory light
Ascent into depth
Occasionally serendipity offers a glimpse of grandeur verging on eternity.
“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.” – Sarah Ockler
Differential erosion
Drainage network
Ancient setting
A rugged arid land, shaped by eons of natural forces, feels timeless in its majesty.
“I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit.” – Rebecca Solnit
Sun rise
Motion blur
Mystical place
The world opens up as a function of the imagination.
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives.” – Anthon St. Maarten
Mutual conditioning
Contributory role
Within the whole
Emerging from a period of darkness, early morning light transitions are a temporal gift from the universe.
“Our style of thinking, pragmatically bent on facilitating our action, has been engendered in concert with matter’s tendency to externalize into spatially discrete parts and exhibit a kind of geometry.” – John S. Meechan
Inclined to endow
Approaching intuition
Organic sensations
Made it over to Whalehead in historic Corolla for an evening walk, but there were lots of people milling about.
“Be it external or internal, some object there always is that my imagination is representing.” – Henri Bergson
Celebrate the moment
Time now again
New escapes
A variegated geothermal field of foreground mud contrasts nicely with winter’s starkness. Contemplating a natural landscape gratifies the soul. We become a composite of all that we experience.
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.” – Charles Lindbergh
Formidable distance
Outspread in form
Driven ahead
Riding the highway into the unknown, the low sun follows behind.
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
Earth intimacy
Carefully considered
Everything happens
More than a year in the rear-view mirror, the Yellowstone trip remains a profitable experience with images still to process. Firsthand natural experience in all its phases is of unparalleled therapeutic value.
“If a piece of work was an honest expression of its maker, it was also a milestone of his progress, and a benchmark to build upon in the future.” – Neil Peart
Stretching far
Morning freeze
Studying possibility
In a natural scene of aesthetic encouragement, experiencing the wilderness offers great gratification. There is an intensity and transactional exchange engendered with full external participation.
“You can twist perception, reality won’t budge.” – Neil Peart