Oxherding Is Fun

there is a vapor glow at midnight,
not from the virgin white moon,
but from the golden ghosts
that hang from the
gallows

Do you ever get stuck? Creatively, that is?  I do.  And the old adage about “thinking outside the box” just makes things worse… try changing the box dimensions.  Think horizontal panoramas or vertical heights.  Find a set of images and with simple crop factors like 5 to 1 either horizontal or vertical see what you [...]

I love how images have the power to move and motivate and make you feel things over again.  Working on this image I returned to Yosemite, stood on the old road that Ansel used to drive into the valley, smelled the incense Pine in the air, and again marveled at God’s glory.  I got chills. [...]

below the brown and bare
deep shadows dream
of canyon walls reflecting
rich, gold sunset light
with approaching deep
blue and purple night
soon dry air evaporates
the muddy water mind
leaving a dusty cracked mirror
for the wind to find
maybe brown and bare
are not what they seem
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I really had a rough day shooting a while back at one of my favorite Texas spots; [...]