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Dust Storm

Sometimes
Life moves at a pace
I cannot keep

Or rather
Life moves
I simply do not

And in my disastrous stillness
The dust storm rolls in
Without hesitation 

To Roll
Over
Me

Move or don’t move
Retreat or don’t retreat
Seek cover or…

Let
The dust
Take me

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Monument Valley & Goosenecks State Park, Near Mexican Hat, Utah, United States of America

Details Details

I watch you
Taking in the wide oxbow landscape
A thousand feet deep
While I photograph the small details
Of tumbled stone and distant valleys

If you could embrace
The vastness of space
Then even a galaxy
Would be a minor detail
In the landscape of infinity

And I?
Not even a speck

To speak my insignificance
Demands more consideration
Than my infinitesimal displacement
Of time and space deserves

And yet
Here are we
The infinitesimal
Contemplating the infinite
Which I suppose
Is big enough
For me

Perhaps
Even…

Divine

Like the way a river
Has carved this earth
For millions of years
And left a canyon here
To pique our wonder

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Ganga Angel, Dashashwamedh Ghat, The Ganges River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ganga Angel

I don’t photograph people all that often. Landscapes, abstracts, architecture. I like to work with compositional forms, with textures, with the play of light, looking at things that stay still for the camera, for my eye. Thinking on it now, there’s a deep level of intimacy in my approach to the subject as I circle and study it, taking numerous test shots while seeking just the right frame, just the right POV.

It’s an intense study of subject I don’t feel comfortable exploring with people. I tell myself, “I’m getting too much in someone’s face,” but I know it’s just as much putting them in my face. The subject has eyes, and a mind, and both are looking right back at me. Too intimate!