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Racetrack Emotions, Part 2
Continue ReadingI encountered this pretty woman one Saturday at the track, upstairs facing an array of closed circuit television screens, as official results of a completed race began appearing. Prior to this, I made two frames of her jumping up and down with both arms thrown above her head, each image interesting and well-crafted in its […]
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Is This Spiritual Rage?
Continue ReadingI had luck enough to travel along the Nile River to the Temple of Dendera, where these photographs were taken during a restoration project. The temple dates from Ptolemaic times — in the few hundred years before Christ — and was built beside an oasis to worship Hathor, goddess of many realms including Sky and […]
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Where Those Patterns Are Born
Continue ReadingI never thought much about the origin of decorative patterns on Native American artifacts, for instance those woven into Navaho rugs and clothing. While reviewing photographs from a trip last year, I stopped to study this image carefully for the first time. A burst of light transited my brain and finally I understood.
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Racing Fan With Voluptuous Feelings
Continue ReadingHere is a young woman watching thoroughbreds carry jockeys toward the finish line of a stakes race in Kentucky. It is simply a sporting event, yet it appears she is receiving sexual pleasure from the spectacle. If not sexual, then profoundly sensual gratification.
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Enthusiasms I Will Never Reach
Continue ReadingI have never been as joyful or animated as the women in these images. I cannot soar that high or reach that deep. I made these pictures at a night club in Asheville, North Carolina on a New Year’s Eve, a high time for everybody attending. It seems to me the ladies are approaching […]
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Experiencing Other Observers
Continue ReadingWe are blind to other minds in the universe — except our fellow humans — and about them we have only our own thoughts about what they are thinking and feeling (theoretical knowledge) and no direct experience. I have always wondered how birds of prey see the world from their cruising altitude. The image above […]
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Humans Are Always Reaching Toward the Sky
Continue ReadingMost people in the Western world have seen church steeples and have formed an idea they are symbols of — or pointers toward — the divine reality. In temporal realms we see similar things. The Statue of Liberty (Lady Liberty) holds her torch of freedom toward the sky in a firm and muscular way, not […]
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Those Likeable Scoundrels
Continue ReadingWherever you go in the world you are bound to run into rascals like these. The Cairo Egyptian salesman above is called Mohammad, like half the men in the Middle East. He is a gifted smooth-talking Arab with a devastating sense of humor. You cannot help liking him. He will take your money and […]
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A Man of Many Stimuli
Continue ReadingYou have probably seen vehicles around your town smothered in decals and bumper stickers, each proclaiming one ideology or another, sometimes giving information about places in the world to which the owners have traveled. Military folks appear at airports in uniforms bristling with service ribbons, medals and rank insignias. Occasionally one sees members of […]
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Jubilation
Continue ReadingIn darkness I waded into this jubilant crowd with one camera and a single fast lens. I have rarely witnessed such joy and chaos. Football fans — packing torches and giant flags — seemed to materialize all at once from every direction; buses lined up to disgorge mostly young people keen to celebrate a victory. […]
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