Not a bad sunset last night over the mountains! I especially like the fact that you can see fine detail of the trees on top of the mountain despite the flat and minimal appearance of this image. Thank you, telephoto lens!
Made of Summer
Beyond photography, my opportunities to create non-commercial art are very limited due to, you guessed it, time constraints. But the interest is still there. So I've decided to do the next best thing and make something that is less time-consuming than an intricate drawing, yet no less creative.
The result? Another "natural portrait" of Japanese musician Morrie literally made of summer: flowers, greens, blueberries, cherries, apples...Good music inspires what I'd like to think is interesting art.
In general, my "natural portraits" are meant to emphasize the mutability of nature, its growth and decay. The very structure of any given piece is highly unstable: imagine putting each berry together as the wind in the Rocky Mountains decides to play tricks on you! Sometimes, it's worth keeping and documenting such mistakes, as they are part of the process.
Once the portrait is done, its constituent parts get "recycled" back into nature. In this particular case, delicious berries and fruit from a local farm were, well, eaten!
In the end, the only record of a "natural portrait's" existence is preserved through photography. Though unlike my previous exemplars, I've also decided to go one step further and create a 6-second timelapse out of the consecutive photographs I had taken of the creative process.
On Edge
Antler Glory
You might think it's easy to film a white-tail deer...until you add your sidekick, a basset hound--who can't catch these leggy stunners, but *thinks* he can--into the equation! 🐶
Happy Goat
Happy goat frolicking in a field of...some mountain flowers I can't identify. 🐐🌼 Can goats be happy? Well, it anthropomorphically looks like it's smiling, and that's good enough for me! 😉
I TOLD you that goat was smiling: so basically, this is the equivalent of Satan, but happy! 😉
Fade into Gold
Lead the Way
It's summer. But we still get a glimpse of the harsh terrain, in which these wild goats survive; here—a mother endearingly leading her baby along remaining snow in the mountains. I just wish I could witness them in their full glory once instead of covered in patchy shed hair. Yes, it's summer, after all.
From Above
Water running from the heavens--it seems--along the cliffs, all the way down to the ground, connecting the above and the below. 💦🏔
Who Needs Rainbows?
Blue, red, yellow, and green--just about every major color in one landscape! Oh, and let's not forget those fluffy white clouds reflected below. 🏔
Yellow Moonrise
It's great to be able to step out for a moment and shoot such a pretty Moonrise tonight. 🌝