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foggy wood
"There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other."
Douglas Everett
A very foggy day in the National Forest, was hoping to spot an owl, or other animal in the deep mist.
This photo will be in the March 2008 print edition of National Geographic.
This photo has been my most sold photo. I intend to end sales after it reaches a total of 500 sales.
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Thunder Ridge Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway
?It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.?
Helen Keller (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)
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Misty Path to Flat Top Mountain
?I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.?
Julian Green
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This side of tranquility
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fall at Abbot Lake
?Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.?
Sam Abell
About this photo: This photo was an attempt to take an early autumn image of the same seen that I took in the summer. The summer view below is my best viewed picture.
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bankside on the James
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ~John Fowles
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When it comes
?When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath -
Emily Dickinson (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
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The best remedy
?The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.?
Anne Frank
An early morning picture taken late last summer
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A taste of last spring
?It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.? Bill Vaughn
I looked through my archives on this rainy day, and I found this picture from last Spring. I have posted a very similar one then. but there was elements that I were not really pleased with. I did a tone mapping of this image and was pleased to see the darkened shore line come to life, as well as the vibrancy of the sky.
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When the Blue Ridge is Warm
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them. Matthias
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moonlight walk
?All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.?
Karl von Clausewitz
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Breaking through
?May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.?
Edward Abbey
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James River fog
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. ~Samuel Smiles
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Misty River
" Out of a misty dream, Our path emerges for a while, then closes, Within a dream?
Ernest Dowson
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light in the fog
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch-- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe. -Ruth Bernhard, "Collection of Ginny Williams" by Ruth Bernhard , ISBN: 1881138046
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One moment in paradise
I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . .
I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . .
I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance."
I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres,
The scale of creation, the rise and the fall.
I am what is and is not . . .
I am the soul in all.
- Rumi
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shelter from the storm
?Perhaps love is like a resting place, A shelter from the storm, It exists to give you comfort, It is there to keep you warm, And in those times of trouble, When you are most alone, The memory of love will bring you home?
John Denver
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surrounding atmosphere
?For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.?
Claude Monet (French painter, initiator and leader of the Impressionist style, 1840-1926)
Taken in middle of a rain storm, yesterday.
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An overcast day on the James River
"The whole of life lies in the verb seeing."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A friend of my mine helped me get a new monitor. It has been difficult for a while because the contrast and resolution was so bad that I often did not know how clear my picture was. Photo editing was a hit and miss activity, but now that has changed thanks to my friend.
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happy New Year!
A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest
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angel awakening
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Adeline Cullen Ray
Just something a little different than what I usually do. Shot with a canon digital elph. This photo has been selected for a Juried Exhibit at the Academy of Fine Arts.
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A Certain Evening Light
When Jack London had his portrait made by the noted San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe, London began the encounter with effusive praise for the photographic art of his friend and fellow bohemian, Genthe. "you must have a wonderful camera...It must be the best camera in the world...You must show me your camera." Genthe then used his standard studio camera to make what has since become a classic picture of Jack London. When the sitting was finished, Genthe could not contain himself: "I have read your books, Jack, and I think they are important works of art. You must have a wonderful typewriter."
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ghost of water
The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars?
Charles Dickens
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art of seeing
?Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.?
Jonathan Swift (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)
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toward the light
?Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.?
Unknown
seen last winter
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energy and imagination
?You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need?
Jerry Gillies
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shadow path
?There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone?
Jerry Garcia
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timeless
Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful. (Lawren Harris)
In tribute to Valpopando who is the master of grace, style and photographic genius. His excellence is beyond description. www.flickr.com/photos/valpopando/
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Sunset on fire
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artist's feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artist's feelings are merely raw material. (Wolf Kahn)
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By degrees in the Blue Ridge Mountains
I was by degrees awakened as from a dream, and feared that my whole life could properly be counted nothing else but a fantastic vision.
Sarah Fielding (1710?1768), British novelist, and Jane Collier. Cylinda, in The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, part 4, sc. 10 (1754).
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The Tree
Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to
emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky.
For these reasons it is natural to feel we might learn wisdom from them, to haunt about
them with the idea that if we could only read their silent riddle rightly we should learn
some secret vital to our own lives; or even, more specifically, some secret vital to
our real, our lasting and spiritual existence.
- Kim Taplin, Tongues in Trees, 1989, p. 14.
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Sunrise at Virginia Beach
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is
to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- Marcus Aurelius
One day several years ago, I left at 3am to catch the morning sunrise at Virginia Beach.
A friend of mine is working hard on a project that we hope to get off the ground soon. This project is in its beginning stages and some of the more exciting phases of the project are still on the drawing board. If you look at this project, imagine your own pictures there. I am really excited about this project, and I wish I could tell you more of the planned features that will be of benefit to all interested photographers. If you would like updates on the features we plan to implement. Send me a Flickr mail, and I will keep you informed as things develop. The beta site is below:
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Sunrise of Chance
?Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.?
Bart Conner
I do love photography.
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the sun will shine tomorrow
?Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy?
Snoopy (Fictional character from the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)
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visions
?For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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boating on the James River
?The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.?
Kahlil Gibran
This photo was taken with a Sigma 10-20 lens, read about it here:
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