The Portfolio
Quality of light
Simplicity, minimalist captures of elements in nature
Tension that evokes emotion and interest
Contrast to capture shapes and texture with light quality, black and white, or color
Unique forms that lead one into other shapes, images and ideas. Often as an abstract.
Clouds, clouds, clouds and how they change the seamless light source for a landscape
Rough, strong and powerful elements in nature
Meshing of elements that are of different composition like rocks, leaves, water, sky, clouds
Evening Pilot Wrapped in Weather
Uplift and Weathering - The Mountains
“A sense of solemn aspiration comes upon us as we view the mountain. We are uplifted. The entire scale of being is raised. Our outlook on life seems all at once to have been heightened. And not only is there this sense of elevation: we seem purified also. Meanness, pettiness, paltriness seem to shrink away abashed at the sight of that radiant purity.”
― Francis Younghusband
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
―John Muir, The Mountains of California
Blue Colorado 1
Source of Life - Water
“Life in us is like the water in a river.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Water is the driving force in nature.”
―Leonardo da Vinci
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Sunflower 1
Natures Color - Flowers
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
― Claude Monet
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Ducks 1
Nature's Children - Wildlife
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
Prairie Smoke
Light Shapes - Black and White
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”
― Alexandra Elle
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
― Pythagoras
Ranch Road
Human Touch - Urban and Rural
“You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.”
― Henri Matisse
“Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.”
― Charles Eames
“Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.”
― Bruce Mau
Oahu Giant
Mighty Sentinels - Trees
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”
― Santosh Kalwar
Stairway to the Past
Dwelling - Ancient Architecture
“To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands of years. On the contrary, we should regard as our inheritance all the successful labours of the past, not blindly following them, but employ simply as guides to find the true path.”
― Owen Jones
“The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.”
― Heinrich Heine
Sand Waves
Sands of Time - Desert
“Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world”
― Rinsai Rossetti
“The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.”
― Tom Hanks
“I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.”