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I went to this area to photograph landscapes - specifically panoramic landscapes. I envisioned trees and fog, the Willapa Bay and distant islands. The universe had its own plans. Sufficiently nudged in a different direction, I abandoned the panoramic landscapes so I could concentrate on making abstracts that look like a starry night sky. That’s one of the wonderful things about artmaking: there is a surprise around every artistic corner. It could almost be said that this is the reason to be an artist. At the very least, it’s a reason to be out there, in the world, camera in hand, waiting to see what unexpected wonder will reveal itself next.
Brooks Jenson - Worlds Within Worlds - A lens work portfolio
To see far is one thing: going there is another.
Brancusi

Christine & Len Photography (by insideoutXS)

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working us exceeded by the pain of not working.
Stephen DeStaebler
Wilderness is valuable in more things than timber, cattle and mines.
Myles Dunphy 1934

Taken on the Tiwi Islands, Melville Island… I used to live there… Well hopefully five weeks counts… I do miss my friends I made there. Scratches head and wonders how they are, and thinks I must take Cyan there one day, as he will love it there… I think it is in his blood… I was the art co-ordinator at Tiwi Designs…

You must listen to the whisper which is heard by you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise teacher does not ask you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran

Window display, from my phone….

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
David Bailey
Express with precision all the gold sparks the soul gives off.
Miró
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand unsuspected shades of feelings. The artist reveals spiritual riches until then unknown, and gives people new reasons for loving life, new inner lights to guide them.
Rodin

Dunns Swamp

Paper daisy

Mushrooms at Mount Victoria

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