-Walking Light Photography-
In Beauty I walk
With Beauty before me I walk
With Beauty behind me I walk
With Beauty above me I walk
With Beauty all around me I walk
from the Navajo-Blessing Way Ceremony
-Images-
-a work in progress...
Images
Lightning over Taos Mesa
Looking North along the Rio Grande Gorge.
Taken with an 8x10 Field Camera
North along the Rio Grande Gorge
Evening along the Rio Grande.To the east,a lone thunder storm drops rain over the Sangre De Christo Mountains.Taken with an 8x10 Field Camera,
Rio Grande Gorge,Sangre De Christo Mountains
I went to take a mid-day walk, by the garden Sunflowers stopped and held my attention
. for minutes,or was it hours?
Blooming Sunflowers,Vermont
The Sunflowers opening Bud is for me,easily as interesting as a full bloom,and just as alive with energy.
Sunflower Opening Bud,Vermont
January 2023 - June 2025
Job Title, Company
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January 2023 - June 2025
Job Title, Company
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Education
My Schooling
January 2023 - June 2025
It was sunrise and twenty below-zero in Northern Vermont. First light had just touched the bedroom window.
This is frozen Breath and Dreams and Light...
Morning Window Minus 20*,Northern Vermont
Sunset at twenty below zero.The ice is on the inside.It will be a cold night.
Sunset Window -Minus 20*,Vermont
The storm came up quickly.Thunder,lightning and the clouds closed in.This image was taken with the 8x10 field camera.There was just time to pack and run as the rain arrived.
Thistles, Before A Storm
It rained all day.The sky was solid cloud cover.Even so,I had the impulse to hike out along the Rio Grande Gorge rim and set up the 8x10 camera.The rain stopped, and as I was checking focus under the cloth, clouds parted and revealed one grand Thunder Head hanging low, over the valley.
The sun had just set and for a brief moment,last light,lit the mountain and sky.
Evening Thunder-Taos New Mexico
This is a place I like to walk in the evening.Vast open space and no one around for miles.To the west are the remnants of ancient Volcanoes-"Two Peaks,Three Peaks",and in the far distance, San Antonito and Colorado.
Mesa Trail,Western Sky-Taos New Mexico
Broken Wheels New Mexico
There are times when images are like fractals,where everything carries the information and likeness of the whole,more mirror than metaphor.This a vintage Cast Iron Hay Rake.It sat next to a very old Cottonwood Tree.Over time the trunk had split and half of the tree slowly fell on to the wheels.They did not snap as cast iron might but gradually bent under it's weight.Now it takes the form you see.Those wheels will never turn again.The machine no longer works.
This image was taken in 2016.At the time,I thought,that's it,"the wheels are broken" and this verse from W.B.Yeats's poem "The Second Coming",came to mind-
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart;the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction.while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity-
It is now 2023. The Goverments of the World,Wars and "rumors of Wars",the Pandemic (and response),Politics and most human systems,the climate,the Sun and the Earth are convulsing, truly, the "machines" wheels are broken and nothing will ever be the same...
