Narrow channels
Appropriate attenuation
Boundary determination
Near a fluctuating water confluence, separated by space and time some distance from the mainstream, shifting light delineates a remote position. Occasionally things can be learned instantaneously.
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” – Ernest Hemingway
Altered environment
Much happens
In a day
With wet snow clinging to every natural surface, textural outlines are well defined. Grateful for good memories, intimately exploring a local area develops distinctive feature understanding.
“When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped.” – Jack London
Visionary affect
Pleasantly surprised
Arrangement interest
On an engaging day long ago, I explore the visual boundaries of the air force base. Such aesthetic activity was antithetical to the tightly controlled environment.
“Like so many other truths, pointless.” – Neil Peart
Perspective change
Awareness contraction
Demanding paradigm
Photographed on its completion in 1977, the 1.37-mile Johnson Memorial Bridge majestically crosses over the lower Patuxent River. Tempered by existential realities situated along the journey, immediate and potential mysteries fuel the adventurer.
“Anything can happen, and scenery is never neutral.” – Neil Peart
Outdoor venue
Consciously lonely
Fortune is random
Performing as an individual within a conforming multitude, the liberating requirement is to remain observationally aware of place and time. Ongoing research validates orientation.
“What is a master but a master student?” – Neil Peart
Naturally spontaneous
Organic abstraction
Resonance oscillation
Going back and processing images captured during my earliest days of photographic activity is illuminating. Art is a balance of learning and unaffected experience.
“With such currents in the existential sea to swim through, a day spent in motion helped keep me afloat, forcing me to be moderately curious about my surroundings, and to concentrate on what I was doing.” – Neil Peart
Forest tapestry
Wilderness mysteries
Inexhaustible realm
Slumbering just below the surface, tree pattern juxtapositions follow ancient traditions and insights. Captured long ago on a trip out west, seasons and phases come and go as beauty prances around.
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
Aggregate function
Movement relation
Molecular proximity
On a ubiquitous corner of a carefully manicured suburban interchange, a flash of red punctuates the sky. The fountain of aesthetic attributes maintain as penetrating and restorative opportunities.
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.” – Orhan Pamuk
Fresh resonance
Necessarily limited
State of mind
More than a subject of artistic inquiry, water reflections offer a high fidelity, richly detailed, visual involvement.
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet
Shaky resolve
Memory ghosts
Long ago
Signs of past existence, experience retention resides in the residual archive of human activity. Relationships in the physical world change dramatically as a function of perception.
“Sometimes I tried to steer my mind away from memories of the past, but in other moods they now seemed so remote, so unreal, that I could dare to think about the past without breaking down.” – Neil Peart