Oxherding Is Fun

rustle the chilled leaves on a chill wind

among giants
painted with brush strokes
as smooth as obata’s muse upon the wet tip of a
…masterpiece.

the giant itself
gave birth to these ozarks
before time and i could imagine the forest as any thing but
…beautiful.
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I have followed William Neill’s photography since we visited Yosemite awhile back and saw his art in the Ansel Adams Gallery.  Recently Neill published an ebook entitled “Impressions of Light” that uses camera blur to soften the details of the image which in turn strengthens the appreciation for light, overall context and wholeness.  I find I get to use my imagination as much as my eye in his images and thus have a stronger reaction.  I tried his technique on recent hike through Devil’s Den State Park.  This image inspires me.  As with his work and this image the descriptive word used often is “impression”. This takes root from the great Impressionist artists of the late 1800s with their emphasis on light and leaving out details.  They achieved a gestalt with out the accumulation of details; rather with light, color and the viewers imagination.