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I am an amateur photographer; a yogini and an adventurer with a passion for photographing nature, chaos, structure and patterns, friends and ithers - with a basic underlying philosophy of Beginners Mind always. These photos are the reflection of my sadhana, exploring and honoring all the shri around me in this awesome world.

Most of my photos are studies of nature’s patterns and the landscape - both within and without. The experience leads me down new paths and old paths, while examining the line between subject/object, big "I"/ little "i", and on further into the vast field of self realization.

Many of my photos are nothing more than sheer delight and happenstance. Kirya, spontaneous action - spontaneous movement, so happy to be caught up in and surfing the midline of grace, if even for a moment.

Photography, like other art forms is a process that takes on a life of it’s own. The process may begin with the click of the shutter, a static moment in time, but it is much more than that. It alters my perceptions and my perceptions alter it, whether in the moment of conception and manifestation in the field, or in the moment of conception and manifestation working with the resultant image. (Other than cropping, and minor exposure adjustments, I alter them very little.) Feelings, thoughts, emotions are encoded within. Months, years later the same image may change with time as the perceptor changes. Nothing is static in space and time, not even a snapshot.

enjoy!

Galleries

Iceland -unfettered and alive : A traveler in the 1600’s titled his journal on Iceland thus: “Iceland, or a short description of the island of Iceland, in which are wild and peculiar things unseen in our own lands, but observed by our own eyes and…..truthfully recorded.” I think he was afraid they wouldn’t believe him. Iceland is amazing! An island the size of Kentucky positioned on the hot spot of the Mid Atlantic Ridge where the North American and European Plates are literally ripping the island apart. Active volcanoes along the vent erupting every 5 to 10 years. Literally being born and ripped apart at the same time every day. Earth quakes and volcano eruptions, geysirs and geothermal vents belching steam into the air. Mountains and valleys formed above and below current and past glacier fields (and resultant land forms). Native trees three inches tall (it’s tough growing in a lava field), over 600 species of moss and lichen and every imaginable form of slimy gooey weirdness. Every color of mountains and minerals. So many kinds of lava fields, so many colors. Rough seas, wild weather, unimaginable food and cool people. Gotta luv it! Gotta go back! Ast.

Iceland -unfettered and alive

A traveler in the 1600’s titled his journal on Iceland thus: “Ice ...

Updated: Oct 05, 2009 11:32am PST

Iceland, volume two : This gallery is a compliment gallery to Iceland – unfettered and alive. This gallery has most of the photos taken on the tour with Go Ahead – my first tour group experience, and I have to say I loved it and everyone was so wonderful and so much fun. If they’re all like that I am signing up every chance I get!

Iceland, volume two

This gallery is a compliment gallery to Iceland – unfettered and ali ...

Updated: Oct 03, 2009 2:42pm PST

Cheraw Beaver Pond 2009 : Early Sunday morning, after the storm the night before; it's back to the beaver pond. I emptied the kayak, shooed away the spiders (most of them) and pushed my way through the submerged thicket, climbing over stumps, getting stuck several times until I found the right path. It has become apparent that kayaking in a beaver pond is a contact sport. Although the still water hides all the junk below the surface - roots and leaves, detritus and stumps, I can feel them scraping the bottom of the kayak as I go. I can literally feel and see land and pond slowly manifest and differentiate. My only companions this time were the silent sentries still standing - hollow rotted trees patiently waiting to fall into the water and dissolve. The dam is about 16 feet tall at the deepest spot. There must be a spring down there somewhere. What a rare and beautiful place.

Cheraw Beaver Pond 2009

Early Sunday morning, after the storm the night before; it's back to t ...

Updated: May 12, 2009 3:28pm PST

Stone Mountain, NC : Where the ticks live, Stone Mountain, hiking the trout steam coridors, through the beautiful fall grasses, and open woods. Cold nights, crisp mornings with mist lifting off the streams as the sun warms the day. Rocky Mountain Spotted Tick Fever. Sick puppy for a few weeks after, maybe a little DEET wouldn't be so bad next time. Happy to be alive and well.

Stone Mountain, NC

Where the ticks live, Stone Mountain, hiking the trout steam coridors, ...

Updated: Nov 12, 2008 4:02pm PST

Spider Lillies on the Catawba 2009 :

Spider Lillies on the Catawba 2009

Updated: May 26, 2009 3:05pm PST

mountain butterflies and ashe county cheese curd : popped out on a trail at the top of a mountain near Moses Cone and walked into a frenzy of butterfies, bees and cow pies.

mountain butterflies and ashe county cheese curd

popped out on a trail at the top of a mountain near Moses Cone and wal ...

Updated: Aug 23, 2008 3:42pm PST

St John USVI 2008 : Spent the days hiking and hours upon hours in the ocean, very friendly ocean there with lots of critters. Great hike to the petroglyphs.

St John USVI 2008

Spent the days hiking and hours upon hours in the ocean, very friendly ...

Updated: Aug 23, 2008 2:32pm PST

Tierra de Milagros, Penninsula de OSA : Signed up for a yoga workshop in the jungles of the OSA on a whim one day when I was feeling a little over the top at work and at home; a little too stressed with too little progress to show for it. I had no idea that I was stepping into - something so intense - a current of energy focused so strongly on cracking me wide open. I was tossed freely into the fire. I emerged centered and strong; open and vulnerable; with clear eyes ready to navigate through the fire swamp from a whole new place. I brought my new Canon 5D, but didn’t take many photos. I made a lot of friends, ate a whole lot of veggies, got up every morning before 5 a.m. with the Howlers and spent my days (and nights) in the jungle with Kali, music, and the good company of friends.

Tierra de Milagros, Penninsula de OSA

Signed up for a yoga workshop in the jungles of the OSA on a whim one ...

Updated: Sep 23, 2008 3:32pm PST

General Dyestuff : 2459 Wilkinon Blvd. After the machines, before the renovation. Beautiful windows, beautiful building.

General Dyestuff

2459 Wilkinon Blvd. After the machines, before the renovation. Beautif ...

Updated: Aug 23, 2008 12:59pm PST

Mama and Papa's house fire : This was and is a small telescope house that once was the general store run by my great great grandfather. As a child I spent portions of my summers in it, helping with the chickens, washing my hands (too much playing with the cats) and trying not to sit down too hard on the davenport, and trying to avoid the outhouse (until 1964). It burned in 2008, fire started by a careless and unstable tenant.

Mama and Papa's house fire

This was and is a small telescope house that once was the general stor ...

Updated: Aug 23, 2008 5:05pm PST

Panama : images from Bocas Del Toro area in Western Panama on the Carribean side. Also, Chereque Grande, Zappateros Islands, and Panama City

Panama

images from Bocas Del Toro area in Western Panama on the Carribean sid ...

Updated: Jul 24, 2006 4:19pm PST

Costa Rica : images from San Jose, Puerto Jiminez and Bosque del Cabo on the Osa Peninsula

Costa Rica

images from San Jose, Puerto Jiminez and Bosque del Cabo on the Osa Pe ...

Updated: Jul 24, 2006 4:07pm PST

U.S.V.I. St. John 2007 : vacation with our wild and crazy friends....

U.S.V.I. St. John 2007

vacation with our wild and crazy friends....

Updated: Feb 22, 2007 4:39pm PST

River House Storm, Writing Spider and Pink Muhly Grass : Many of these photos are fuzzy because they were taken in the rain at twilight, no tripod and no editing or color enhancement. 90% of the leaves were gone the next day.

River House Storm, Writing Spider and Pink Muhly Grass

Many of these photos are fuzzy because they were taken in the rain at ...

Updated: Nov 06, 2006 4:33am PST

Sara's Graduation and Road Trip :

Sara's Graduation and Road Trip

Updated: Sep 20, 2008 6:17am PST

Cheraw : Improptu weekend trip to Kay and Craig's cabin outside of Cheraw, SC on the weekend of March 24th, 2007. They have three (+) ponds, one or two made by beavers, and a cabin; arabian horses and (fruiting) pine barrens or sand hills and scrappy black jack oak forests. The beaver pond was huge and pollen was thick on the lillies and other aquatic vegetation, since no rain had been had in a long time. I first thought this dusty situiation would not help my photo's, but was happy to see that it made them better by accenting the difference between what we saw as the "physical world" and what we saw as the liquid reflection. We also saw a turkey and an Eagle (and/or an Osprey), but didn't see any beavers; Johnny and Black Dog didn't see the turkey, but they sure saw a lot of other things we didn't see!

Cheraw

Improptu weekend trip to Kay and Craig's cabin outside of Cheraw, SC o ...

Updated: Mar 29, 2007 9:25am PST

Family Crab Feast , etc. :

Family Crab Feast , etc.

Updated: Jan 16, 2009 3:21pm PST

Kathy and Bruce's Wedding :

Kathy and Bruce's Wedding

Updated: Sep 09, 2006 5:31pm PST

Antigua : Antigua, about the island....

Antigua

Antigua, about the island....

Updated: Jul 24, 2006 6:02pm PST