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  There is no place you can go to hide from the thoughts you keep contemplating  over and over inside your mind. There is no place you can venture where your true emotions will be concealed and the secrets of your heart will not show. There is no place in this whole wide world you […]

“If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water.” — Loren Eiseley On Saturday evening the sun will set on the last day of summer. When we awaken Sunday morning, the autumnal equinox will have given us the first day of fall. This season always leaves me a bit unsettled, as I […]

  “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.”   –Victoria Erickson   The words of Victoria Erickson beautifully express how it feels when I stand and gaze at the incredible […]

      “Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”  –John Muir   Those who know me, know how much I love the southwestern United States. I used to […]

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film, is captured forever. . . it remembers little things long after you have forgotten everything.”  –Aaron Siskind     Recently I was at a get-together with some friends and the topic of photography came up. I was asked why […]

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. Happiness is a journey, just […]

  Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught…. Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. —Cree Prophesy   Winter has finally let go of Mother Earth and she has sprung alive in the warmth […]

If you do not walk with the animals, you will not know them – And what you do not know, you will fear – And what you fear, you will destroy. –Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh      I did not grow up around horses, but I have always felt a connection with them, similar to […]

“When I was somewhat past ten years of age, my father took me with him  to watch the horses out on the prairie. We watered the herd and about the middle of the day came home for dinner. . . While we sat watching the herd, my father said: ‘These horses are God-like, or mystery […]

  Saturday I participated in a local workshop with some amazing landscape photographers. We met up at Longwood Gardens to play with depth-of-field and macro-photography. This is the first real workshop I have ever been a part of and I was not disappointed! In the short time we were there, I learned some new techniques […]