Manifesting continuum
Activity association
Accumulating experience
Expanding visual ideas into new realms of photographic capture, the aesthetic journey endures.
“A spiritual definition of energy could be given as follows: it is that form which the whole manifest universe arises, causal, subtle and physical.” – Stanley Jacobs
Shifting dune
Later stabilized
Kill devil hill
Commemorating the achievement of the Wright brothers, a 60-foot-tall granite monument was constructed atop the 90-foot-tall Kill Devil Hill sand dune. To secure the sandy foundation, bermuda grass was planted on the shifting dune and the surrounding area with fertilizer spread throughout. When is human intervention in natural processes acceptable?
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” – Orville Wright
Substance mixture
Particular belongings
Inseparably together
In nature divergent things seem to inherently harmonize.
“The world was not made for any one species.” – Daniel Quinn
Sufficient condition
Occurring together
Conflation consequence
Wild autonomy stimulates us aesthetically, but do seabirds appreciate the aesthetic beauty offered in their own diurnal cycle?
“The aesthetic experience of wildlife is one of spontaneous form in motion.” – Holmes Rolston III
Intrinsic connections
Sustained attention
Existence mystery
Aesthetic seeking explores the connection between wonder and meaning.
“It is the elusiveness of the meaning that haunts us, that sends us again and again into the natural world where the key to the riddle is hidden.” – Rachel Carson
Natural phenomena
Showery prism
Sky arch
Magic transpires on the beach in many different guises.
“It’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.” – Douglas Pagels
Aside obstacles
Provisional becoming
Meet resistance
Directing the thought of those in position to receive, sometimes the passing flux is labeled to describe or designate.
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” – Frank Herbert
Unexpected intersect
Ontological orientation
Sensation intensification
Ceaseless motion becomes apparent at the ocean’s edge.
“Philosophy is the mobilization of the force of difference where immobility and the static dominate thought; it is the freeing up of becoming from any determinate direction, the seizing of provisional becomings from the chaos of being.” – Elizabeth Grosz
All that much
Close ahead
Point of view
I am compelled to head out every morning before dawn, to explore the environs as the light slowly shifts, walking in solitude.
“Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.” – Tom Petty
Leading out from shore
Into the water
Landing stage
Currituck Sound has it own unique charm, that effortlessly entices you to slow down and contemplate.
“And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution.” – Ross Macdonald