The Journey Into Art

This afternoon the winds came strong off the mountains back onto the dunes, pushing them back out to the valley.

The constant back and forth of the morning and evening winds have kept these dunes stationary for thousands of years...

Sometimes one afternoon's and evening's experience lasts for months. So it was with this evening at Muley Point in southeastern Utah.

Everything came together to make a most remarkable several hours of capturing the breadth of a spring evening in the desert...

Virga are streaks of rain beneath a cloud, but the rain never reaches the ground. I've also heard it called dry rain. Until this plane flight I'd never seen virga from above. Not much of a cloud above the virga...

What is art to me?

This is a remarkably vital question. I have been a physician for over 34 years as of this writing.

What I carry into my art starts from the many years of observation I have practiced in medicine...

This is another from the Transformed Series where I began to depart from standard landscape photography and add a bit of happy dance to the print.

It was taken on a late spring afternoon on Muley Point in southeastern Utah and shows the wonderful combination of the land and my experience of and with it...

...when solitude, season, and sky, all come together in the right place and time, when I am in the right frame of mind. This instance was certainly not of my choosing. I was witness to a solitary moment of allure and loveliness and mindful enough to appreciate it...