Look at the shapes water freezes in when it freezes over pebbles. The pebbles create an image of themselves on the underside of the ice… which melting follows, and air, which re-freezes […]
Ancestral Water Knowledge
Beautiful Balance
The bubbles of air that have been drawn by wave action concentrated by an opening and closing gap on the ice of Okanagan Lake, go no further than the crack. Under the […]
The Future of Life
Life is the ability of self-replicating organisms being able to react to the environment. Life is also a quality of an environment. When an environment is said to have life, it means it is energized, […]
Tracking the Ring-Necked Pheasant into Deep Time
Is life a story of gas pressures in liquid during changing temperature? Is it a story of light following fissures in substance, and so sorting itself out into different qualities? Is it […]
Human Life Under the Sea
Water is mysterious stuff. So is air. Sometimes air holds up water.Sometimes water holds up air. But there’s something else going on. Mud.What you’re looking at here is the bottom of a […]
Imaging Making Beyond Photography
Photography is a means of recording temporary effects of light. It began by a process in which light energy created structures of silver crystals on a glass plate. Now it is created by […]
The Beauty of Ice and Grass
Plants lay down their intricate patterns based on cycles of pressure and release, which are in turn formed by intricate and varied patterns of water, carbon and gas pressures, like this I guess. Note […]
The Pattern of Life
Check this out. Here are two rose hips at sundown. Note the long stem, the flattened sphere of the fruit, and the long floral leaves. Now check out this mud puddle ice just up […]
100 Photographs for World Water Day
For the love of water and the love of life, I’ve collected a few photos from here and from http://www.afarminiceland.com. (click on each image for title and to enlarge) … I’m off to […]
Human Nature
What is nature? I’ve been asking people, and they’ve been looking at me strangely, and have said things like, well, you know, green stuff. Sometimes people answer like this, too: natural things. Or […]
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