“I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.” -Rainer Maria Rilke I've always felt an ...
Vintage Lenses and Your Personal Vision
Where does your personal vision take you? These photos are some of my favorites from this summer so far. Water droplets are intriguing in how they ...
Voices of the Caged (links)
One of my favorite poems ever (there are many, you can't expect me to pick just one) is Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird." If you haven't read it, where ...
Ripple Effect
I've been thinking lately, about consequences. About the ripples we make, not knowing, sometimes not caring, how far they go or whose lives they ...
Savoring Photography
I recently stumbled upon a fantastic site about taking your photography business to the next level. It's called go4prophotos.com, and I can't wait to ...
To the Limits of Your Longing
"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your ...
Departure and Return
--edited to include full poem-- "To go forth now from all the entanglement that is ours and yet not ours, that, like the water in an old ...
Gleam
Now for a little more classical literature.... I was thinking about photography and writing the other day, how it's a process in both cases, a ...
Of Masks and Mirrors
I have been thinking about authenticity and the awesome resilience of the soul. From the time we're little, we're told how we should and should not ...
Tales of the Tower
I love fairy tales. For an adult, that may seem an odd thing to say. But I love the different perspective that a good fairy tale, or myth, ...