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I Lent My Camera To A Friend: Here Are The Results

I'm hoping that you all had a great week! As I noted in my last note there have been some changes in my life lately that improved positively and has me busy. I ...

This Pylon Broke Free! An Art Installation

Today I’d like to take you on a little journey that will take me back to a very special spot in the Ruhr area - more precisely to Oberhausen (Germany), very clo...

A Moment Held

In the incessant tempo we term life, there exist segments during which the world appears static. For me, the world is frozen when I have an opportunity to conne...

Why You Need to Stop Chasing and Start Receiving Life's Wonders

Today I want to share my most recent photographs with you. These photographs were taken at different times, different locations. They all share the same message...

The Bloom, The Buzz, The Breakthrough: Discovering Life's Lessons in a Hibiscus Garden

Life takes us unexpected places and that is where we find our greatest beauty. I had such a day a while ago. I was focused on a quickly-moving target - a shinin...

Unveiling the Iron Veins: A Hidden Giant of German Logistics

Sometimes it is coincidences of existence that provide us with the biggest surprises. A couple of years back, just before gathering up my things in North Rhine-...

You Create Therefore You Are

Today I want to talk about something particularly important to me as a photographer: creating. To me, photography is far more than merely pushing a shutter butt...

When Silence Speaks Louder Than a Thousand Birds: A Soul's Reflection

Once again, I headed out today with ambitious goals, deep into the lush green we see around us. Back pack on my back, camera ready, and visions of what I might ...

Their legacy slowly fades in silence - My entry to The Friendlymoose Photocontest – DECAY

The year was 1992. It was a time of transitions, farewells and new beginnings. The German Democratic Republic was gone, as was the Soviet presence that had domi...

Wings of the Soul: Skyward Bound

What if I could do a little dance in a cosmic twist, flip gravitational pull off like a heavy coat, bend and stretch my legs and arms so they become wings to ta...

Sunflowers: A Symphony of Joy, then the stark Reality

Today's journey is taking us through a sunflower field. I love sunflowers. I like being in a field of tall sunflowers with big bright yellow heads traveling tow...

The Weeping Woods: A Story of Resilience and Release

!!!Viewer discretion is advised! The last three photos may not be for the faint of heart, especially the first of the last three. All of these photos are taken ...

The Soulful Energy of Early Morning Walks: A walk into peace

I would like to take you on a brief walk today. A walk that is especially important to me. Through the awakening of nature, when the world is still soundly slee...

My Lens, Their World, Our Everyday

Today, I'm taking you on a little excursion into that micro-world that unnoticed, is most always present. It is incredibly important. My latest photos show you ...

Foxglove's Dark Whisper: Beauty, Deception, and Life.

On days like these when the outside world is a little too loud and my soul a little too quiet it came to me: there is little consolation in the little marvels o...

Behind Every Great Sparrow Photo... Is Sometimes a Great Sparrow Butt!

Do you ever feel that way? You find yourself going back to a location that has already supplied you with a variety of magical photographic subjects and it does ...

Summer Sunday Spirit

What a lovely Sunday it is here with the gentle murmur of summer around me. Wherever you are in the world, I hope this finds you well and that you can experienc...

From Forest to Park Pond: A Tale of Two Sightings

Now, I want to tell you about a recent experience I had at our city park. While I was at the pond, I had the chance to see two birds which immediately looked fa...

Wings of Wanderlust: A Stork's Summer Farewell

Nature is flaunting its most beautiful side now that summer has arrived. When I'm out with my camera, there are always times that especially move me. Last week ...

Goldfinch Magic: A Fence-Top Discovery

I was about halfway home when I caught sight of something special which caught my eye, instantly braking me. There, right in the middle of a garden fence, was i...