For me, the camera is a means of seeing the world. Light. Color. Shadow. Texture. Depth. Line. Perspective. Proportion.
I am currently on a sabbatical from my day job. During this time of rest (at least a change of pace), I am working on a book on the relationship of faith (trust) and the reconciliation of the imagination. (With some work and a little luck, it’ll come out during 2022.).
As an imaginative discipline (perhaps a spiritual discipline) alongside this academic work, I am wandering with my camera in order to see the world. In some ways, this is just a matter of paying attention. Chasing the light.
As a means of keeping track of and sharing these moments of chasing, I am going to share some of these images here.
From my wander yesterday, I happened to survive a flyover by this pelican without being shat upon. (This is no small thing for someone upon whom birds like to empty themselves… and with some accuracy.) What I see here, however, is akin to an x-ray as the sun shines from above. The length of the wing. The spines of the feathers.
The camera here captures a moment in time. A very brief moment. A fraction of a second. So small that it barely existed. My naked eye could not observe this moment separated from the one just before and the one just after because of this fellow creature’s natural movement through both time and space. And yet, here it is. A moment of light captured in time.
In the category of “also nearby” are two other members of the Aves class: a wee song sparrow and a bald eagle.
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