Morning Woods

I notice a plug for the Roadside Bloomery project over on John Nack on Adobe blog (some nice gallery links, click around there, but come back!) So in the event that perhaps some real photographers might follow John’s link this way today, I’d best get up an image to look at. Larger image link

I would like more shots like this one from the edge of our pasture one morning last week; I’ll have the tripod along next time and maybe try some HDR versions just for fun.

So I keep watching for another day like the one on which this shot was taken, but you know, we don’t get carbon copies of time. No two days are the same if you attend the nuances of light–one reason I love the way photography changes one’s awareness: it can keep you from taking any visual moment for granted. Heck, I’ll just quote myself (from Slow Road Home):

I know this from my photographer’s experience: any image I take is one of a kind. Each composition in light or in words is unique. The light will never be that color from that angle on that exact configuration of barn, tree or wildflower ever again.

And this: that we too often take for granted the extraordinary senses of vision and hearing, touch and smell that are our gifts–-opportunities given us by which we could know the familiar beauties too often missed or dismissed in our hurried lives.

We have so little time in the present and there is so very much to take in and share. There are wonders all around. From our everyday lives, these familiar things may seem unremarkable to us. But in these precious instants in time, if we keep our eyes open and our hearts ready to know it, there is nothing ordinary.