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Stillness is my newsletter and journal with essays on art and slowing down, on landscape photography and wilderness travel. The intention is to give you pause, spark your imagination and reflect on seeing life in all its beautiful complexity.
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FEATURED GALLERY - “Eastern sierra“
The 400 mile Sierra Nevada escarpment rises like an impenetrable wall. The granitic uplift that started four million years ago continues today, and nowhere is that more apparent than along the eastern edge where the Great Basin desert formed because of this moisture-blocking curtain of rock. The dry sagebrush uplands of the Eastern Sierra sing a tune of elemental struggle, but showcase sublime beauty in simplicity of shape and distance. I've traversed and photographed this region several times over the years, but have yet to really understand its voice.
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unburden
“Just once in life
Unburden thyself,
Disappear into a landscape
A letting go made hard
By the noise of life
If this is quieted
To disappear into a landscape
Is to find yourself”
Scientific Name: Eschscholzia californica
Fun Fact: They close up at night and in heavy wind. Plants that tuck themselves in for bedtime exhibit a natural behavior known as nyctinasty. Scientists know the mechanism behind the phenomenon: In cool air and darkness, the bottom-most petals of certain flowers grow at a faster rate than the upper-most petals, forcing the flowers shut.
The Print: Printed on heavy weight matte paper
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