Landscape

Off the deck
Backyard color
Saturation

Often the bounties of existence are close at hand.

“A life without rain is like the sun without shade.” – Karen White

Make up a life
Image of delight
Things materialize

Bright morning light at the reservoir.

“But the great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake.” – Willa Cather

Ocean’s edge
Limited space
Water left behind

Isolated pockets of seawater remain at low tide in depressions along the shoreline.

“But when the tide goes out the little water world becomes quiet and lovely.” – John Steinbeck

Old iron
Mooring buoy
Remains

Repurposed to help control shore erosion, a few historic buoys return to the water to decompose.

“Mooring buoys support sustainable use by preventing anchor damage on sensitive habitats especially coral formations, seagrass beds, and submerged archaeological resources, while facilitating public access for research, recreation, and tourism.” – Sarah Fangman

Blue waters
Waves dance
Morning light

So far away and yet so close.

“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Various surfaces
Customary course
Traces a path

A multiple exposure is centered on an isolated backlit tree.

“The object of the glance, in other words, is not an object at all; the glance deals with the surfaces of things.” – Susan M. Bredlau

Early morning
Across field
Organization

There is much opportunity presented whenever an artist travels to a new venue.

“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

Impression integrity
Made by manifold
Natural objects

Changing conditions ensure aesthetic potential.

“Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rich notion
Sense experience
Active qualities

A moody view reveals itself when looking into the mystical forest up-hill from the lake.

“Vision is already inhabited by a meaning (sens) which gives it a function in the spectacle of the world and in our existence.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Come along
Morning dance
Across the street

In another province and time, just outside the window, phenomenal appearance manifests.

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl