• landscape,  Plants/Nature,  quotes,  sunrises

    Grass at Sunrise

    August 17, 2011
    Blades of Grass

    “When we are exposed to nature’s power and, at times, it’s fury, or when we intentionally place ourselves in close contact with the natural world without benefit of our usual technology and creature comforts, then we can begin to realize that humans are not the center of the universe.”

    Philip Chard

    The witnessing of a morning sunrise requires us to leave the comfort and warmth of our bed or maybe it requires us to wiggle out of our sleeping bag. Yet the experience of such a moment in nature lets us know we’re alive and a vital part of this world but definitely not the center of the universe.

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  • fog,  landscape

    And the Fog Rolled In

    August 15, 2011
    Morning Fog

    “A planet this gorgeous is required for the emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual development of the human. Without such magnificence we would not be able to bring forth any sublime expression of what it is to be alive or to experience fully the delight in the life that is presently available to us.”

    Thomas Berry

    And beautiful it is! Happy Monday!

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  • clouds,  landscape,  sunsets

    Pink in the Clouds

    August 12, 2011
    Pink in the Clouds

    Here’s those two trees again. Do you ever wonder what this land looked like before man turned the soil for farming, removed the Native Americans, wiped out the wildlife through hunting and poison and put in housing developments, strip malls, warehouses and thousands of miles of pavement?

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  • Plants/Nature

    Sunflowers

    August 10, 2011

    While exploring on the eastern plains I found where some farmer planted a field of sunflowers, just for me. Since they went to all the trouble of planting these golden gems I figured I might as well take a few images. I stopped along the road and walked into the first row of these “head high” plants. A world within a world and an enjoyable world to enter. It’s interesting that the heads of these flowers, which face and mimic the sun, consist of 1,000-2,000 individual flowers joined together. Both images processed with Topaz Adjust.

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  • clouds,  landscape,  quotes,  trees

    Everything is in Movement

    August 8, 2011

    “I go and get the camera and do it. Photography is a medium in which if you don’t do it then, very often you don’t do it at all, because it doesn’t happen twice. A rock will probably always be more or less there juts the way you saw it yesterday. But other things change, they’re not always there the day after or the week after. Either you do it or you don’t. Certainly with things as changeable as shy and landscape with moving clouds and so on, if they look wonderful to you on a certain day and if you don’t do it then, you may never see them again for the rest of your life. So as a photographer you become very conscious – at least I do – that everything is in movement.”

    Paul Strand
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  • clouds,  landscape,  mountains,  quotes

    A Way of Life

    August 5, 2011
    Along the Horizon

    “As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a  means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting ones originality. It is a way of life.” 

    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    The move to Denver has again allowed me to wander the country roads of the Colorado plains. I find my eyes are scanning for a solitary tree or groups of trees, isolated farms or old homesteads, windmills, the distant horizons, all forms and textures of rolling clouds and of course the Rocky Mountains. While out here I’m free of the noisy city. I can listen to the wind make music with the trees along a creek. I can listen to prairie dogs bark their warning calls. I can enjoy the joyful song of the meadow lark. In the heat of the day I can hear the hypnotic sound of the cicadas. I like being here. I like having my camera with me. This is a way of life.

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