Landscape
Content with Silence
t’s been quite a month here. A pandemic and quarantine followed by a move to a new city,
Waking Up in the Pine Tree Shadow
While we stand alone in a sprawling field of uncertainty, we are not powerless. Collect your creativity along with your intellect to create a sense of agency to do what needs to be done. Let your heart and mind be a compassionate fortress.
Moon Walk
Moonrise at dawn from the boardwalk in the Bosque del Apache
Reflections on Thinking
If the universal addiction is to our own pattern of thinking – which is invariably dualtistic – the primary spiritual path
Courage Over Comfort
Some reflections on the need for courage in the midst of the pandemic, and compassion, in this musing.
Running with the Stars
Running with the Stars “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running...
Where the two worlds touch
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to…
Surprised by Snow
During the winters of my childhood I devoured the weather reports hoping beyond hope that school would be cancelled by snowfall. With the highest of expectations I stood like a meteorological sentry, watching…
Cemetery Wood
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual…
Unapologetic Rocks
Always empathizing with both the viewer and the scene, Ansel was a remarkable artist, craftsman, professional, and human being. Paying homage to you and…
Facing the Songs Within Us
When we turn our back on our gift, we turn our back on life. It’s easy to have interests but whatever you give your heart to will challenge your being on the most profound levels….
Reflecting Reeds
The world is a mirror image of your mind…
Sand Dunes with Melting Snow
Clearly, I need the camera to tell these stories. How these words stumble out of my mind and clack into this screen incompletely….
Empathies with Snow and Dead Piñon
It was wonderful to set up the camera …
Trembling Happiness
A favorite quote from Khalil Gibran is paired with an image of the Bosque del Apache blanketed in the light of a remarkable sunset…
Paying Homage to the Wounds Within
As broken as the world most certainly is, we must commit our hearts and minds to finding ways to turn our wounds into spaces of true refuge…
It’s Light that sustains me
Prior to being grounded in love, we think we are nothing but the self that things happen to. We are afraid to go near the hurting place because…
Kirkjufell
And so the clone tool was left in the toolbox for another day…
Black Church
In my mind’s eye I’d imagined this scene countless times, each with a blanket of snow with Búðakirkja standing…
Invocation
A New Year’s invocation to call forth the beauty in oneself…
Christmas Blessing
May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises…
Enchanted Pond
Revelation suddenly appears as if unbidden. But the heart is always summoning opportunities for our hearts to awaken.
Standing Still Before Dawn
There was no wind and no crickets on this mid-December morning. No packs of coyotes howling. Maybe this is…
The Winds of Grace
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail…
imagining the birds and i
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside
Tunnel View in Starlight
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning…
Moon Songs
How do we place ourselves, and keep ourselves, in these wandering streams of beauty?
Happy Lucky Idiot
Because I was rushing. Because I was being a tad lazy. Because I was intent upon getting to the Star Party on time…
Sheep Heaven
I’m pretty sure the luckiest sheep on the planet reside in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Lucky…
Chilly Monte Vista Sunrise
This is the first photograph I’m posting from the photo workshop in the San Luis Valley led by the masterful wildlife and landscape photographer…
The Darker Side
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side…
New Moon
As I watched the tiny sliver of a new moon make a rapid descent through a narrow veil of clouds last night I was reminded of just…
Wolf Moon
Perhaps it was simply my sense of anticipation about this “wolf moon,” but there was an eerie quiet that seemed to spread across…
Handheld Lightning
What happens when you let go of perfection and seize the PLAY instead?
Meadow Sunset
There is a field. I’ll meet you there….
Self-Portrait
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow…
The Numinous Edge
I’ve been touched by the numinal while eating dessert and comforted with its presence while singing a lullaby to my dying…
Monsoon Morning
A torrential monsoon swept through Santa Fe last night. I’ve lived in northern New Mexico for over eight years and this was hands down the heaviest rainfall I’ve seen
Walking Clouds
Mysterious and elegant, virga often appear like skybound octopi reaching tentacles down to snatch a cow off the…
Cloud Pigsnout
And if you can’t be a rainbow, then be a whimsical pigsnout. Because pig-snouted…
Sepia Lightning
Sepia Lightning The other day I shot a sequence of lightning shots with my iPhone 6–all handheld....
Ash Moon
With the moon in your sky and beauty in your heart, you are never alone. –Susan J. Preston
Cloud R?
I was driving down to Albuquerque when I pulled over on the side of the highway to document this amazing cloud. It was as though it was…
a little black rain cloud
a little black rain cloud i’m just a liitle black rain cloud hovering over the honey tree....
The Art of Uncertainty
“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then…”
The Trail of a Crab
Noticing beauty is a ability that can be cultivated. In so many ways, this is what this website is about. Learn how to…
Engaging Ambiguity
“I see no reason for recording the obvious.” –Edward Weston
Conversing with Sand Dunes
“Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?” –Edward Weston