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Peace of the week, May 20

May 20, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“To photograph is to confer importance.” — Susan Sontag

MIle Marker 357, 22x34

 

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Precious metals

May 16, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

Some women get excited about a new pair of shoes or a new handbag. And I’m sure on Mother’s Day last weekend lots of women were thrilled with a new piece of jewelry. But as for me, I like my metal a little less precious and a lot more bulky! Continue reading »

Peace of the week, May 13

May 13, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“The tree that moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stand in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity…and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself” – William Blake

MIle Marker 361, 22x34

 

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The Power of Nature

May 9, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

My focus as a photographer has consistently been to show the beauty in the “ordinary”, to make both myself and the viewer see the commonplace as the special place that it often is. However, many times on my travels, Mother Nature gives me the “extraordinary”, the scene so beautiful it slaps me in the face Continue reading »

Peace of the week, May 6

May 6, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. — Ansel Adams

 

Mile Marker 341, 35x51

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Peace of the week

April 29, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ―   Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Midwestern farmland in the spring

Mile Marker 360, 16x22

 

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Godley Texas to London England

April 26, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

Most of the conversations I had with individuals over the weekend may have faded from my (now warm) ears, but I found another reminder of why I love art festivals. As I typed my new collector’s information into my data base, amidst the banality, I was struck by the diversity of the addresses. Continue reading »

Peace of the week, April 22

April 22, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” ― John Galsworthy, The Forsyth Saga

landscape photograph of rural americana

Mile Marker 363, 11x14

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Peace of the week, April 15

April 15, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. – Amelia Earhart

 

MIle Marker 331, 22x34

 

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Peace of the week, April 8

April 8, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. –  Anais Nin

 

Mile marker 332, 35x51

 

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