Tag: emotion
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Into the Melt of Light~
There are moments when the world softens at the edges. When the sun leans low enough to scatter gold across the water, and everything is a blur of presence. I stood there watching, unsure if I was dissolving into the scene or if the scene was becoming me. Waiting. Reflecting. Searching. Being. There is a…
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The Architecture of Modern Isolation
There are moments when the world feels like a maze we never chose to enter. We move through invisible boundaries, caught in constructs we never built, each of us walking our own private path. In this photograph (I took in museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands), the image of the girl enclosed in a grid of…
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Rebirth~
Day is reborn from night, rain from clouds, a tree from a fallen seed, a sunrise from the night and new possibilities from old failures…
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Gateways to the soul
So much power can travel from and between human eyes, intensity, excitement, alarm, fear, inspiration, hesitation, suggestion, avoidance, guilt, pride, strength, wisdom, glow, inner beauty, and so many other emotions and radiations, too many to list here. Gateways to the soul? Portals of higher communication? However we see them, once the mouth is masked as…
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Day 14~ April 14th~ Congo
There is a great power in Africa which throbs in the land like a drum beat and then spirals up through its people, radiating from every pore in their skin and fashioning a most complex range of human expression… I look back at this photo of a girl in Goma and I see shyness, strength,…
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Day Three Hundred Fifty Seven, January 14, 2012
Life is a series of tiny moments stringed together with emotion. Throughout this string are some impressions that just stand out and demand to be remembered. A writer might write about them, an artist might immortalize them with their brush, and us photographers, we pray that our camera is there within arms reach to capture…
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Day One Hundred Eighty Three, July 24, 2011
One of the first shocks you get when you go back to the place of your childhood has to do with change. Everything has changed, your parents are older, your friends are different, your home is strangely nostalgic, your most precious childhood memories are diluted into the wind like dandelions. And so much emotion is…