I caught the pattern of veins and frost crystals on this leaf in the nick of time!
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Frost on Fallen Leaf Veins
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How do you know when you are pushing yourself enough creatively? When you stick with it until you are creating at your limits.
Sometimes small challenges add up, and rather than letting these little roadblocks stymie us, we need to find ways to move past them without wasting too much effort. This applies in creativity, productivity, and problem-solving just as much as on the literal trail, but we can struggle to do metaphorically what we do on the trail without a second thought. In small steps.
How to grieve the end of fall. It’s a miniature grief, but one that matters if we really attend to it. If we pay attention, we can learn a little about beauty, development, grief, and hope.
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Storm-Washed Chapin Forest Landscapes
Landscape images made in Chapin Forest Reservation just after a thunderstorm
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Your everyday flowers
Think about the everyday flowers. The flowers that normally grow near you exemplify the purpose of this photography project. They are temporary. There is only so much time to enjoy them. They can be small, hidden, commonplace or somehow easy to overlook. You see them but you don’t see them. But they’re also beautiful when […]
Fine art images invite you to meditate on the good. It is easier to improve at making them if I have a degree of calm and humility. If I could forget myself, that would be divine, but meanwhile, I can become smaller and better at noticing what .
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How I am getting creatively unstuck
This is the picture that restarted it all. It is vital for me to point out that it isn’t perfect, but it marks the moment that I realized I wanted to be more intentional and consistent about taking pictures… this one rekindled the love of photography!
Which photo is your favorite? Here’s what Instagram said.