A couple of weeks ago I had an amazing time with Lea and her horses, watching them play and documenting the day.  It had been six months since my last visit, which doesn’t seem possible at all.  Time does seem to fly faster as one ages.  All of these images are in color because I couldn’t resist how brilliant they were.  I hope you will see the incredible connection between Lea and her horses.  I am always in awe when I see them together, interacting, experimenting, trusting.  Enjoy the show!

I love the details.

So simple but I really love this.

The light in the forest was so beautiful.

Lea always keeps the horses on their toes.  I’m sure they wonder “what is she doing now!”

I’m in love with how this turned out!

I love how unique and intimate this one is.

The eyes say it all.

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Often, I write all day long with white ink on white paper, late into the night, until it is all I can do to feel the letters curving to earth from the tip of the pen & then, I fall asleep. Dreaming of running, or maybe driving in a car the color of water & I wake the next day remembering nothing & I gather the stack of paper & a pen of black on the desk in front of me & the words begin to dance over the page like long legged insects across a still lake & the words in white whisper behind & underneath the new day. If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. & there is nothing more to it than that.

~ Story People

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For every moment that passes,

there lives the potential for a photograph to be born.

Every glance, every smirk, every tear or smile

can be transformed into a work of art;

a moment frozen in time to live on forever.

Every moment is precious,

every breath and sigh

and every millisecond in between

is an expression of life . . .

Notice the perfection, the sweet spot

in the everyday ordinary.

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I have felt scattered this week.  Too many directions to go in but I’m feeling directionless.  So many household things have fallen apart, needing my attention.  And yesterday, to top it all off, I went out to start my car and a tire was flat.  The end of the day resulted in two new tires.  I was supposed to pay bills with that money.  Oh well.  You can’t get there from here without a car in Maine!

I’ve been experimenting with different techniques for my photos.  The following image breaks my rules of grainy pictures.  But change is a beautiful thing and I love this image of my daughter, especially when processed like this.  In the near future, this one is going on my wall as a canvas gallery wrap.

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“If your creativity during the upcoming year could take shape—or if the space that accommodates it could take shape—what would it look like? Show us.”  Inspired by this post on Shutter Sisters.

This is an interesting way of looking at creativity – that it could have a shape. A physical form.

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness (based on its etymology) is that it is simply the act of making something new. – Wikipedia

I don’t come up with New Year’s resolutions like many people do. This year I decided on a word to focus on. Soar. My creativity is entwined in this word. Its meaning is a guiding force for the way I proceed through my daily photographic endeavors.

Giving my creativity a shape has got me thinking. So I started to look through some of my images to see if any of them jumped out at me, announcing a physical presence.

This image volunteered. It is clearly a fence line, but beyond its borders lives mystery. Beauty. Light. Freedom. Infinity. Within its borders there is very little space. And it is limited. Familiar.

I envision myself soaring over the fence line. My creativity is clearly on the other side.

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