Line | MOONSIDE

The Spirit of Snow

The Spirit of snow

highlights the love of line

the loving grace of trees in winter

bare and spiritual

the horses a gift of color

in otherwise black and white

January 5, 2019 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs, Music of Nature, Nature Photography, Poetry, Spirituality, Uncategorized | Tags: Farms, Fencing, Form, God in Nature, Horses, Landscape Photography, Line, Linear form, Nature, Snow, Spirituality, Trees | 25 Comments

Verticalia

Naked trees reach

upwards toward the sky

in pursuit of our Creator

Trees dressed in flowers

turn our eyes skyward

to gaze at cottony clouds

Church towers

carry our sight

to the bright blue heavens

as we stand

gazing

in unparalleled awe.

April 30, 2014 | Categories: Spirituality, Street Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: Architectural details, Awe, Church towers, Clouds, Columns, Flowering trees, Line, Lines in nature, Parallel lines, Plazas, Sky, Spirituality, Spring flowers, Street Photography, Trees, Vertical lines | 4 Comments

Maya in Nature and the Nature of Maya

If one looks at nature abstractly, one can see it is made up of line, color and form. Plato spoke of “form“. And Indian philosophy talks of Maya, the consensual reality that is a dream of our mortal bodies. Yogananda warns us not to get caught up in Maya and how easy it is to see it as real.

My photograph is a homage to the Abstract Expressionist artist, Mark Rothko, a hero of sorts for me. He was reaching for spirituality, too, but did not follow Hindu thought. However, in his paintings, which I try to emulate in photography, one can see color, shape and form. This is a step away from the dream of life or “Maya” and a step towards the spiritual.

Next time, when looking at nature, try looking beyond the scene to the formal elements, and see how the dream of life is a delusion in which our minds spend most of their time.

February 7, 2014 | Categories: Abstract Photography, Animal & Landscape Photographs, Nature Photography, Paramahansa Yogananda | Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Photography, Art History, Color, Form, Hinduism, Indian philosophy, Line, Mark Rothko, Maya, Nature, Paramahansa Yogananda, Plato, Reality, Shape | 8 Comments

Iced Reflections

The fluid, monochromatic, abstract form of the ice

Over the intricate, colored lattice work of the reflections of trees

Water in its various states each with its mysterious qualities.

February 21, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs | Tags: Abstract, Abstraction, Form, Ice, Line, Mysticism, Realism, Reflections, Shape, Transformations, Water | 2 Comments

The Microcosm and the Macrocosm

Grace flows through the limbs of a tree reaching skyward, its intricate patterns of branches pleasing the eye– just as grace flows through the orderly, spikey branches of frost on a window.

Patterns repeated ad infinitum in all creation.

A microcosm of the macrocosm and a macrocosm of the microcosm.

God’s breath breathes through all.