SkyWhalesAndOtherWonders-TPB-ARC-Front
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The new year isn’t a month old and I am already two months behind. My story “Only One Story But He Told It Well” is the final story in the anthology. Don’t know if my first story sale foreshadows a career change -lol- but it is quite exciting. Here is a very nice review of the anthology http://billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/skywhales.shtml
Flying lessons
We are born to fly
to soar through sky blue
and in the darking night
to ride a moonbeam
to wonders out of sight.
Why then you say are we
so often earthbound, and I say
to you childhood’s clarity
has been pushed aside by
fear, fear of falling of failing
fear of losing that which we
never had.
We dread the fate of Icarus
and forget that Daedalus the
father only told him what not to do,
had Daedalus guided his son toward
the cool blue mountains giddy he
might have been with the joy of flying
he would not have flown toward the sun.
We are born to fly
to soar through sky blue
and in the darking night
to ride a moonbeam
to wonders out of sight.
Let us each one, once again
give our spirits wing
and call to those who follow
the cool blue mountains are
this way come fly with me.
I am continually fascinated by what comes out of a simple not particularly interesting photo with a little manipulation. And yet another manipulated photo.
The image to the right was one of several that started with the photo.below Just some junk behind the fence and then magic.
All art is abstract whether it is a representative rendition of life in a photo or pushed to the point where it is non representational. It is also true that all abstractions are not art.
If we grant the premise that art is not simply reproducing the visible but making visible it is much easier to define art in such a way that makes room for all of us. I find myself saying at times sorry that does not speak to me at all, I am happy that it speaks to someone else, but for me it is more artless than artfull. On the other hand, there are many things that to me are art that do not meet the arbitrary definition of others. In the end we must each define for ourselves what is art.
Here is another variation on the abstract junk 
I would rather be out shooting pictures in the mountains, but that isn’t possible for now.
Finding beauty and something close at hand is the order of the day.
I really love working with digital tools, I can fill up a memory card and play to my hearts content, and all it costs me is a little time. Not everything turns out great or even good, but what great fun it is to play and find treasure, or even junk that can be turned into treasure.
This and the other fractal art posted on Flickr was done with KPT 5 in Photoshop CS4
From the Library of Congress collection.
They just don’t look very comfortable.
Some marvelous photos from the LOC available on Flickr.
This is the beginning of a show in Proshow Producer. Not sure where it is going yet. Took awhile to get a sequence that gave the appearance of a door opening.
