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Perhaps I have ADHD, ADD, WXYZ, or something, I don’t know. We know that when we endeavor into an artistic genre, we will aim at “traditional.” Once that is known (fully or otherwise) sometimes we ask ourselves, “what can I do with this? It’s nice, but how do I make it my own?” Our thinking drifts in and out of ideas. So how do we work it out? For me, the first step is to take it too far. Sometime that works, sometimes not. When I first started using intentional camera movements in my work, I was elated! My assistant reviewed some of my work and honestly stated, ” it hurts my eyes.” With that, I came to understand that something new and exhilarating to me is meaningless if it does not convey a meaningful message to the viewer. It was not failure, it was learning and with learning comes maturity. So here we are again. The decision to gear up for bird photography in February has brought me here. Processing a color image, save, process a B&W rendering, save, process a B&W image and remove the colors that make the water go to black. Stack that black image over the color and reveal the color through masking. Kitsch? Perhaps. But I will embrace kitsch if it leads me to new knowledge. Anyway, it makes for an interesting desktop background. During this process of editing and video creation I have come to remember why I love photography so much. A few hours spent outside of myself. No cares of the world bearing down on me. Looking for beauty and story. What a lovely privilege. Watching and appreciating nature is a treasure to the heart. In all of that discovery, I see the direction to go. To explore and work. To fail and succeed. To live.

Finding the Light It is the telling That wears us out So we run to places Where semblances Of light Still reside The gold of morning Gives us hope. There is no talking here Only instinct And the basic will To survive. A place for flight And grace Strength and weakness. It waits for no one And moves through us all. An unending story Waiting to unfold Waiting To be told.


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EGOSCOPE 5

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The Shape of Things
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I'm at work today. Drinking some very strong coffee. Waiting for permission to live.


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In Search Of: A "K" - Can't seem to make it happen....these two came up in my feed side by each...kismet!

Shasha-frasha-meesha-masha, is all I have to say about trying to get this to work Send the artists some love anyway!

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