Oxherding Is Fun

on the oxherding path
the bull is ridden
and forgotten

I spent the morning yesterday volunteering at Art City Austin which became measurably harder than it should have been given the fierce storm that blew through the night before turning over exhibit stands.  The perk of volunteering in the before hours of the show is that you get to help artists and photographers without the [...]

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 [...]

Every time I get deep into digital editing, as I did recently with many HDR processed images and some selective color work, I am always drawn back to the basics and simplicity in photographic technique.  With all of the whiz-bang, special digital processing of imagery it is good to remember the fundamentals of photography and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]