Photo of the Day
Fresh photos from the American Southwest and my travels abroad.
Welcome. This site is primarily meant to be a place for creative daily practice in image making and storytelling. Rather than being an area to view my portfolio, photo of the day is a sandbox of photographs and ideas. One of the greatest challenges artists face are editing and committing to a creative practice of showing up, day after day, consistently. This is my focus here. Although I may not post a finished photograph every single day, I am engaged in writing, photographing, or post-processing on a daily basis. This is my commitment to my craft, myself, on behalf of the natural world.
Crabapples in Albuquerque
Crabapples in AlbuquerqueHuman are tuned for relationship. the eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils–all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. ― David Abram Photo Credits: Crabapples in Albuquerque, by Susan J. Preston,...
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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…
Walking on Water
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform…
My God is Wild
A powerful and favorite quote from John O’Donohue…
Red Tail on the Hunt
See a sequence of photographs of a red tail hawk as she flew toward my camera…
Flying Toward Ourselves
Please, listen to your heart. Hear its voice above all others.
Doe Looks Back Before Moving Forward
Everything you want is on the other side of letting go…
Magical Beast also known as the Roseate Spoonbill
This a photo of what I can only describe as a Magical Beast. Roseate Spoonbills present like chimera’s – part lizard, part flamingo, with a dash of White Rabbit…
Sandhill Calligraphers
It’s easy to read what they write across the sky if you look closely enough. Hope is what they’re offering us…
How this heart melts for all of us
Caledonia is a metaphor for whatever wakes you up. Can you hear the birdsong that brings you more alive? This is the heart of what it means to be a creative – to answer the call and the willingness to follow it.
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….
The Winter of Listening
What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind…
Nuzzling Stag and Doe
the expression between this couple was quite remarkable. In the late afternoon sunlight, the stag quietly made his way over to this doe, leaning toward her and…
Let the Beauty You Love…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Empathies with Snow and Dead Piñon
It was wonderful to set up the camera …
Pretend You Are a Dog
This dog. THIS dog holds me like putty in his deep brown eyes and snow-crusted whiskers.
Float in the Air
Still, it’s an overwhelming experience. Being able to float in the air…
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…
Lone Sandhill Flies Into the Night
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone…
Something that looks foolish
The right answer always hides behind something that looks wrong, something that looks foolish…
A Running Start
Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don’t feel like working…
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…
Visual Cadence
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is…
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…
Long Exposures and Longing to Be True to Oneself
To reveal oneself–to be true to oneself– requires more time and more risk than the span of 1/1000 of a second…
A Wider Circle
A Wider Circle“Mother Teresa said the problem is, we draw our family circle too small. Your family...
Hidden Beauty
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it…
Not For Your Sake and Not For Mine
A poem by Mary Oliver preceded by some thoughts on the morning crane take-offs…
Worrying comes to nothing
We Have Been Wrong and We Can Do Better
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier…”
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…
Everything is Waiting for You
A poem for the new year from David Whyte – let’s leap into this new decade with gusto!
Invocation
A New Year’s invocation to call forth the beauty in oneself…
Watching the Sandhill Cranes
A gorgeous poem about sandhills by William Stafford…
Red House in Reykjavik
A good beginning makes a good…
Christmas Blessing
May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises…
Flying Each Other Home
Rest in peace Ram Dass
Winter’s Solstice
The magazine, Christianity Today, came out with a notable statement about the impeachment this week…
Enchanted Pond
Revelation suddenly appears as if unbidden. But the heart is always summoning opportunities for our hearts to awaken.
The Freedom in Truth
How does the world suffer when your heart is boundaried?
The Great Relief
So much for the tortured artist. It’s an old story in need of a revision. Art holds the power to…
Go on anyway
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not…
I will not be tamed
I Will Not Be Tamed“The ancient roots of the word "art" have to do with connection, and art, at...
Seemingly Insignificant Little Ducks
Finding a wealth of depth and beauty in unexpected places…
Heron rows forward into flight
Mary Oliver’s timeless description of a heron…