Oxherding Is Fun

“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 [...]

Where is your passion?  What ignites that spark within?
Processing my latest images from a business trip to Las Vegas reminded me of what I am passionate about and certainly what I am not.  Every Vegas image was a chore to process.  No fun.  No desire.  No spark.  I made it through six images with many [...]

I enjoy pictures where imagination comes into play.  Such as below where you have to wonder just what is hidden in that lurking blackness within the fissure of the rock.  Dark areas, because of natural human apprehension, work well well to engage our imagination.  Another area that can easily peak our viewers imagination is street [...]

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 [...]

jewels sparkle lit  ….like christmas lights    ……..hung by ozark squirrels
amber jade garnet emerald  ….and a turquoise sky  ……..wet diamond white refraction
pierces eyes unblinking — all is light and change — in the forest between the eye and the i

The late afternoon sun lights up an Ozark forest within Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas.

hiking upon a carpet of wet autumn leaves
the spirit takes flight
on the back of wafting leaf carried by a chill wind

Just get your butt out of bed, pick up your camera and tripod, and catch a sunrise.  Need more help than that?  Go read “The War of Art” by Pressfield.

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 [...]