The Journey Into Art (Thoughts)

The luminous quality of the light shining through the leaves of the aspen and cottonwood cannot be expressed except in picture. On a clear day like today it is so bright, you must shield your eyes. But you don't want to, as it would diminish the radiance...

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around...

After many months of distraction, I was driving out on the plains of eastern Colorado, when I came over a hill and saw a low, wide valley filled with clouds. I had never seen such a site on the plains...

The contrast in the movement of the water and rock is striking.

The water moves moment by moment.

The rock was moved by the water, but only in the distant past and now is only moved slowly by the rain and winds...

Water seems so innocuous. It seems to make us wet and uncomfortable when caught in the rain. It seems so benign when we are in the shower. We don't though think much about it when we are dry...

Creativity goes away when the most important thing in life is surviving.

As most know, my primary profession is medicine, and the past 6-8 weeks have been quite hectic, to say the least. Thankfully I have not had to fight for the survival of my life nor for others in my personal and professional circles...

How does one start on an artistic journey in landscape photography? I knew from the first time I invested in my first “good” digital camera; I would eventually want to express something unique in my work...

I have read a lot about creativity and even tried to write about it myself.

I have concluded that talking about and writing about creativity is like walking around a well and only describing what is in it with the simple term "water"...