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
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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 | 23 Comments
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.
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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
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.
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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
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.
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February 21, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs | Tags: Abstract, Abstraction, Form, Ice, Line, Mysticism, Realism, Reflections, Shape, Transformations, Water | 2 Comments
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.
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February 19, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs, Macro Photography, Mysticisms of Science | Tags: God, Grace, Landscape Photography, Line, Macro Photography, Macrocosm, Microcosm, Mysticism, Nature, Pattern, Patterns in Nature, Spirituality | 8 Comments
