Category Archive: nature

Through the Screen Door to the Unknown: Cambodia and Vietnam

All it will take is just one moment and you can say goodbye to how we had it planned Fear like a habit run like a rabbit out and away through the screen… Continue reading

Kicking Into Chaos

As simple an act as opening the eyes. Merely coming into things by degrees… – Way Out West, Amiri Baraka Years ago, I was traveling through China with some other artists and we stopped along… Continue reading

Strange Light

“For the listener who listens in snow…” I’m not sure that artists really have down time. I can take a vacation from work-the-thing-that-pays-the-bills, but I can’t not be an artist. Still, I try… Continue reading

Symbolism Lost and Found

“Who drinks the wine Should take the dregs; even in the bitter lees and sediment New discovery may lie. The deer in that beautiful place lay down their bones: I must wear mine.”… Continue reading

Undying World

I don’t know. I’ve been drawn into a number of conversations with people lately who are of the opinion that we have gone past the point of no return; that preserving our environment is a fool’s errand and as… Continue reading

Alaska: The Other Journey

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.… Continue reading

Alaska: The Literal Trip

“I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear…” -Everett Ruess I know I’ve been away from the blog forever, but I needed to get my legs underneath me again after a… Continue reading

30 Portraits of Trees and One of the Forest

I’ll tell the wind my name, and no one else. True madness takes or leaves us in the wood halfway through all our lives. My skin will be my face now… Neil Gaiman,… Continue reading

More Songs About Gear and Sand

Coyotes tiptoe in the snow after dark,  at home with the ghosts in the national parks… What can I say? Spring is hard upon us and it’s time to hit the road again in earnest… Continue reading

Back With An Artistic Vengence

Writer’s block sucks. Whatever the photographic equivalent of writer’s block is, sucks. I’ve been floating in the muddy, uninspired waters of various blocks for the past few months and have finally emerged with new work… Continue reading