Romantic take
Appreciated anonymity
Poetic sophistication
A perennial winter’s day, on a trip to somewhere long ago, appears seasonally timeless. Each image capture records only the duration of a shutter snap within an infinite flow.
“No work of art is ever finished, it is only taken away.” – Geddy Lee
Discrete vignettes
Brief interstices
Epiphany clips
A wilderness visit of short duration leaves sharp images of sublime memory, and a capacious desire for more expansive exploration. The realistic truth of the outer world nourishes the poetic soul.
“A work of art is a corner of nature seen through a temperament.” – Emile Zola
Exquisite scenery
Weather uncertain
Self contained groove
Out walking by myself, exploring the shores of the Chesapeake Bay during the dead of winter, was extremely satisfying. Moving across the landscape on long observational walks remains a meaningful activity fueling the intellect.
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
Suitably scenic
Plumb the depths
Desire a-rambling
Temporary atmospheric conditions influence feelings and aesthetic response. Observing nature and weather pass by the side window, the conscious component of experience appreciates quotidian life.
“Overall, the same mantra continues to apply: keep moving.” – Neil Peart
Passing today
White noise
All the way
Recycling the periodic rhythm, while in it for the long haul, seasons come and go with regularity.
“Feelings of anticipation bring back that childhood sense of Time; its incomprehensible linearity, how unreal there seems from here, in either direction.” – Neil Peart
Supercooling
Contact freeze
Glaze Event
On the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, a temporary crystal wonderland accompanies an overnight ice storm. Sudden landscape transformations are consistently intriguing.
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” – Marcel Proust
Moving change
Everywhere present
Winding through landscapes
Coursing its way through space and time, as a matter of abstract practicality, a river and a life share some existential features. Peaks and valleys manifest along the way on a journey to eventual oceanic disappearance.
“Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Grey context
Color aggregation
Substance environment
An overcast day in the late fall of 1976 aesthetically translates. By scanning subtle color saturation captured on slide film, an explicit collaboration with a much younger version of myself transpires.
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka
Vapor dominated
Close proximity
Buoyant heat
Indicating that molten rock lies just beneath the surface, Yellowstone’s dynamic hydrothermal activity is most impressive in the winter.
“Yellowstone’s thermal areas are the surface expression of the deeper magmatic system, and they are always changing, They heat up, they cool down, and they can move around.” – R. Greg Vaughan
Certain impressions
Constant conjunction
Across many instances
Under certain identifiable conditions, natural mechanisms structure accidental concomitance. The objective basis of conceptual necessity attributions reside in the working of such apparent mechanisms.
“So it is with the life of souls in a world: fixed laws, consequences unfolding by causal necessity, the whole natural order, are at once limits within which their common life is confined and also the sole condition under which any such life is possible.” – C.S. Lewis