The camera deceives. It captures light and gives the illusion of having captured sight. The difference is illuminating. Have a look at this stag horn sumac. Not only is it a pattern […]
At the Edge of Colour There is More Than Light
Earth: Wetland of the Solar System
Last night the waterways froze. Today the skies cleared. The sun came out. Yesterday I wrote a piece of history. It was exhausting. Today light says it better. Well, light and water. […]
Let’s Not Be Too Romantic Now
The Okanagan Valley in which I live is sold as a place of beauty and purity in the midst of a wilderness. This project has been underway for about 125 years. The […]
The Many are One and the One is Many
The concept of many… … is also the concept of one. All see. This “seeing” is not the “seeing of the human eye” or the “insight in the mind that is the […]
In Praise of Darkness
Wherever we are, we are already there. Such as looking down the valley from St. Melangell’s church in Wales, where Christianity was taken up by priestesses before the Gospels where written. Or […]
The Sun is Not a Focussing Aparatus
Every moment of the sun is as focus as any other moment. This is hard for a human eye. It’s used to burrowing through light, to throw it into dimensions, which it […]
Deer Watching Over the Years
It’s good to do things in the right order. First, you see who has stuck a camera to his eye. Oh him. I saw him years back when I was stuck behind […]
Quick Light, Slow Light, Great Two-Sided Heart
The billions of years that are the intersection of Sun and Earth, which are all present at once and opening around us, can be viewed as new, arising in an instant and […]
Will You Decide to Stay?
If you’re looking for nature, why not go to the Chasm? A whole continental glacier drained out through here not that long ago. But if you’d rather get to know yourself, why […]
The Beauty and Danger of Using My Camera as a Calculator of Geometric Mathematics
There is great beauty in the way the processor of my camera seeks out fractal patterns in information and remembers the image through a series of mathematical repetitions, rather than a laying […]
