“Zion Meadow” is an image created just outside Zion National Park in southern Utah. The Park is aptly named, as one of the meanings of the word is heaven or utopia, and this magnificent park is a little of both. Zion park lies near the town of Springdale, Utah, with it’s B&Bs and camp grounds. […]
“Waterholes Canyon” is another image fron northern Arizona and the slot canyons on the Navajo Nation. Todays note is some thoughts on beauty. ….there is a silent language of our whole being which yearns for art and the beauty from which art comes.—Rollo May The relationship between art and beauty is one of ongoing controversy, […]
“Waiting For You” – shifts the focus from the beautiful landscape to the body as the object of beauty as introduced in my last blog. I believe it captures the essence very well, as the body is presented against a black and featureless background that isolates it in space. The title–“Waiting For You”–sets the mood […]
“Elements” is another image from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument area in Utah. We have already visited the Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch and the narrows there. There are several slot canyons that open into Coyote Gulch, the first is Peek-a-boo Gulch, then Spooky Gulch, and last Brimstone Gulch. These all drain into Lake Powell […]
Passion-the elusive feeling of awe and excitment when everything seems clear and time stands still. How is this feeling found, and how do you act on it? This is a question I have heard asked frequently at art and photography workshops I have attended. The transition from copying someone elses art to creating your own […]
One of the best things to do is sit around the coffee table and talk for hours with a friend or friends, sipping a cup of tea or coffee accompanied with some snacks. The coffee table appeared in the late 18th century, after the low sofa was accepted as a less formal way to entertain […]