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Rarely It Happens
Continue ReadingHow does an alignment like this ever happen spontaneously, except with infinite rolls of the dice, and even then …? And how does it happen that a photographer approaches that spot at exactly the right moment to capture this strange synchrony? I lack a good answer.
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The Scarecrow As Esoteric Sculpture
Continue ReadingImagine you are out for a walk in the park and you encounter this fellow. It could be the death mask of an ice-age human, with the huge nostrils for warming and moisturizing dry frigid air, but the goatee is not well-synchronized with the Middle Paleolithic. Clearly it has been borrowed from the fake beards […]
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A Desert Benevolence
Continue ReadingHere olives prosper In dry and doubtful ground. Bestowing restful tonic, A soul-refreshment On truth-thirsty travelers.
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The Graphics Are Everywhere
Continue ReadingAt points of interest in our southern deserts you often find a trail leading to petroglyphs (rock markings) of the ancient kind, sometimes with modern written analysis posted alongside, attempting to explain the function or significance of the prehistorical marks. But consider my present-day “Petroglyphs” above. Could you now decipher what lies behind these contemporary […]
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Some Desert Glory
Continue ReadingIt is hard to resist a pink & red, deep blue, orange, purple, yellow/aqua and green-studded sunset. Or a less garish one below in mostly navy blue:
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The Hyperreal & The Grand Canyon
Continue ReadingI ask myself why folks react in their individual ways to a structure like the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Not everybody thinks it the greatest thing in the world; moods and opinions differ. It suffers from its reputation and from its prolific representation in film and still imagery — it is hard to […]
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Kindred Spirits
Continue ReadingThe three people in my photograph are strangers to me. They appear to be a happy family, average folks paused at a rest area between Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona while a winter storm passes. When weather erupts from this spot landscape views can become fantastic and approach sublime proportions — as on this afternoon. The […]
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