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Discovering personal expression through solitude in nature. Inspired by the vast regions throughout my homelands of the Flint Hills & Tallgrass Prairies of Kansas.

Tread Lightly

By |2018-09-13T12:03:17-05:00September 12th, 2018|Tags: |

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor E. Frankl As I look back over years of my life I now recognize many of those years being based on productivity rather than meaning. Control rather [...]

The Breadth Of Solitude

By |2018-08-24T12:57:30-05:00August 24th, 2018|Tags: , |

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. -Blaise Pascal Solitude is not a subject of interest to me, it is a way of living. How does one properly articulate how they see the world, how they chose [...]

Celebrate The Ordinary

By |2018-08-21T18:03:11-05:00August 14th, 2018|Tags: |

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. -Blaise Pascal I couldn't help but put a few words down here after listening to what I just listened to. It made me think some of those deep thoughts. You know, the kind [...]

Art Is Not Just Anything

By |2018-08-21T18:06:54-05:00August 8th, 2018|Tags: , |

“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect–a sense of inclusion. Our subject [...]

Photographs That Make A Difference

By |2018-07-31T20:39:27-05:00July 31st, 2018|Tags: |

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. -Leo Tolstoy The World is full of pictures, dare I say too many pictures? I don’t think that would be a stretch. Pictures, that is to say, the depiction of [...]

New Galleries

By |2018-07-02T17:17:54-05:00June 30th, 2018|Tags: |

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward It's been too long since I put a post out here. That has not been because I am slacking off. I have two posts that [...]

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