The Blog
On photography and things like that
Where thoughts and pictures become words.
Viewing The Image / Photograph
Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso I use the term "image" to refer to a digital replication. Such that are viewed on a digital device like your computer or other personal digital device. I use the [...]
The Healing Landscape
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Over the years I [...]
Point Of Focus
Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life for he who has understood existence. -Marcus Aurelius The ever changing landscape of existence, day to day living has long been a main point of focus. [...]
A Way Of Thinking
Education in the West has been very focused on preparing people to be workers, but that leaves lacking the qualities that make someone a good world citizen. -Daniel Goleman Photography is abound with workshops, tours, classroom discussions, and [...]
The Art Within
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. -Joseph Campbell Nearly all time spent in the pursuit of this craft known [...]
The Many Faces of Art
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker It typically is not a good quality to be a person of many faces. Such [...]
Live A Life Worth Photographing
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. [...]
Resistance – That Voice In Your Head
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 [...]
Daily Living
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 [...]
Summer Fly By
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 [...]
Contemplation And The Photographer – Mystical Awareness
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 [...]
From Change To Transition
Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. [...]
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~Lao Tzu