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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.

Live A Life Worth Photographing

By |2019-12-08T19:35:56-06:00December 8th, 2019|Tags: , |

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -E. E. Cummings I was listening to [...]

Resistance – That Voice In Your Head

By |2019-12-04T21:03:35-06:00November 22nd, 2019|Tags: , |

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. ― Steven Pressfield When is the last time you had a new and interesting idea? Something that got you excited, if even just a little bit. More importantly when was [...]

Daily Living

By |2019-12-13T17:07:45-06:00August 31st, 2019|Tags: |

Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself. Rumi It always seems like looking for the treasure is more fun than actually finding it. Once you find it, if you ever do, then what? It's not about the picture from atop the mountain [...]

Summer Fly By

By |2019-08-15T00:25:44-05:00August 14th, 2019|Tags: , , |

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. -Arthur Schopenhauer I feel as if I am [...]

Contemplation And The Photographer – Mystical Awareness

By |2019-07-14T19:46:47-05:00June 30th, 2019|Tags: , |

Mysticism ~ The attainment of insight in ultimate or hidden truths, and to human transformation supported by various practices and experiences. In doing some research on contemplation and photography I came across the "mystical awareness" phrase. In learning more on about this I found [...]

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