Oxherding Is Fun

on the oxherding path
the bull is ridden
and forgotten

“When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
- Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland
When you read that quote, what comes to mind?  Is it a negative idea that starts to swirl as in we have to have destination or else we are lost?  We are driven to believe we have to [...]

We humans have tendency to “humanize” the world around us and naming spots in nature is a case in point.  Below are two HDR images; one of Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas and the other of Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park.  Titles, images, descriptions, even poetry fall away when you are there.  The [...]

I climb once more
into your december soul
rock wall ……cold
no hand ……hold
no crag to grasp
can I resist the leap
through air so packaged,
………printed in crystal copyright blue
…………………..(ulysses butterfly cmyk(92%, 59%, 0%, 4%))
breathless flight
the fall
a brief superman
……..carried upon wings of plastic
at the velocity
of society
…….guaranteed
fourteen false summits
…..and you and I are already starting at the top
a heart
granite hard
still bleeds
green [...]

A very well respected photographer spoke at our last CapMac photography group meeting whose main passion was portraiture via black and white film photography — his art is excellent.  While he embraced digital workflow in his commercial work he called HDR the “tube top of modern photography” and he did not veil his disdain for [...]

You say you live in the moment
but are you really measuring time
by what you have done
or what is to come?
Is your vision is tempered
by what your eyes can see
or what your mind tumbles into existence?
Within the mist
do you see the occlusion of vision
or floating ghosts of grey
playing in the realm of the imagination?
I wrote the [...]

Which came first… the prose or the image?  I quoted a passage from Shakespeare’s Macbeth with the following image.  The image did not exist in its form below until I read the passage but the passage resonated with a vision of the the unprocessed image that I saw when I was shooting this scene for [...]

At recent trip to Zilker Botanical Gardens I was shooting all the things everyone else was photographing: the water lilly blooms, the many bright colorful flowers, the mighty oak, the stream in the Japanese gardens, the dinosaur in the prehistoirc garden, etc.  But my favorite image of the trip is the simple one below that [...]

When in the field, or in the studio, the first action of photography is “seeing”.  Preparation and visualization might be first but these are not usually “in the field”.  How you “see” might just determine the course and eventual end result of your photography and art.
Recently, I was taking pictures of the Spring wildflowers on [...]

I have a few different spiritual beliefs to explain nature and our role in it, but on a personal human relationship level there are few fundamentals.  I believe in love, and in service, and in union, and in responsibility and giving yourself to others.  A man long ago believed those things and he was crucified [...]