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- September 12th, 2008
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Forest Scholar
You know what I’d do if they abolished all zoos I get a nice camera and go in search of some fowl or maybe even a great horned screechy owl I’d see them in situations unusual and strange but not enough to totally rearrange then I’d
- September 2nd, 2008
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Waiting For the Light to Change
The poet Yeats awoke in old age to find his “circus animals” had fled I’m no Yeats and some years younger so mine must be on holiday waiting on the softer light soon their vanity will prevail they’ll pose before me until the
- August 22nd, 2008
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Broken-Hearted (2/14/08)
Walking Hains Point the Morning of Love thoughts of my wife’s restaurant and the coming fun looked down and saw this - was temporarily dazed “What spirit or illusion is befogging my brain Cupid’s a trickster, he’s not to be ta
- August 20th, 2008
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Hole of Souls
(All photos unaltered) Cave of the Winds or Hole of Souls? a glistening shadow or all of the above
- August 18th, 2008
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New Again
(all photos unaltered) Strange is king unless something familiar whispers try to see me new again
- August 15th, 2008
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Poet Laureate of Con Trails
Strung on high festooning sky even clouds must compete with jet-borne trails in bringing forth the day I don’t want to be The Emperor of Ice Cream or Distinguished Professor of Atmospherics Poet Laureate of Con Trails will do just fine but my
- August 13th, 2008
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Beat the Drum
Thrum Thrum Thrum Thrum see the sound of the beating drum doubled by stick and creek reflection music unheard is sweeter said Keats this is a venue to try these words The drumhead is smooth the drumhead is tight the stick comes down at a requisite
- August 11th, 2008
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Vegetarian
I’d rather be bored stiff than watch the generic television program - three hundred channels helped do that - I’d rather be bored stiff than play a video game - I never have - If there were more of us we’d be shot for sabotage
- August 10th, 2008
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Great God Pan Is Dead
The sailor Thamus heard a divine voice proclaim that “Great God Pan is Dead” here he bonds with Alien and lives again if only on an eroded bank facing the lowering sun unaltered like all these photos
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Alien
Why is it that Buddhas, aliens, and such are fodder for the inverted camera it’s because their features are rather simple and bilateral and will gladly suffer some distortions all ingredients for the playful lens
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Asian Dreamer
In honor of the Chinese Olympics the spirits sent me an Asian Dreamer I had to invert to meet her, of course but that was no price to pay at all just the inverse I was the one rewarded to greet her
- August 8th, 2008
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Even the Camera Bows Down
An inversion and then a rotation accentuating the absurd taken casually, a throw-a-way shot no anticipation of anything strange two pairs of 20’s Flappers telling little secrets illusionary spaces and hidden faces Star War’s ships passing
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Thales
The great Greek Thales said all had come from water here a stream spirit holds his effigy head in honor of what he had discovered the idea of a natural principal that governs both water and world
- August 7th, 2008
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Stone Head
This stone head was carved by water doubled by light but their work is gone now hidden from sight
- August 6th, 2008
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Bard to Beast
From Bard to Beast in just two days once he sang now he growls change happens quickly in the inverted world sometimes so fast it’s hard to follow
- August 5th, 2008
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It Could Be Shakespeare
It could be Shakespeare or his evil twin god forbid an alien you never know who you’ll meet in the Inverted Mirror World It’s just a matter of getting down and dangling over the stream the eyes and water take over from there the result
- August 4th, 2008
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Bottled Nature
This looks like a bottle but there is no plastic here just the brown of a stump and the green of a field
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Some Days
Some days, many days Twin Branches withholds itself but every once and a while it surprises and opens itself for viewing but then tomorrow it’s hello brother not today
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So I Spun This A Bit
So I spun this a bit what’s the difference if I catch the Stream Grandmother out and ready to play
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It Doesn’t Require
It doesn’t require a pristine stream to give nice colors light and shadows for here it seems the muck and mire brightened the palette and made the day
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These Shadows Are Strong
These shadows are strong the leaves are drugs one sniff of these and you’re all but done
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Negative Matter
These leaves seem empty place holders for space more void than solid negative matter
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Revenant Creature
This revenant creature was born in the stream but he paid me a visit as if in a dream hanging and symmetry will do that it seems but it takes the mind to guess what it means
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Atlas on Steroids
Atlas on steroids has sprouted some breasts but still has the strength to hold up the earth but soon Hercules will come and give him a rest because that’s one of his labors trials and tests (look for the light, upraised arms, pin point eyes, an
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Let’s Hang Upside Down
I took this picture upside down over an eroded bank to show the inverted world can be disorientingly revealing read the poems at the top of this page should you think I’m overreaching some words may be worth a
- July 30th, 2008
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Another Head of Orpheus
“Rhyming oneself into the interpretive field” a friend once said was a way to enter these pictures lowly, despised, and scor-ned trope is not just for philistines, dabblers, and dopes for if there is some whimsy that needs unveiling the h
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Glade Stream Late July
Another case of perceptual ambiguity what seems up should be down what seems down should be up it’s all a matter of perspectivity
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Looking Up or Looking Down
The rocks and brown say one is looking down the blue and green say one is looking up and then there is that confounding parrot or is it just a turtle perched on a rock
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Stil (Clifford) life
If there is transcendence in life it may lie right through here and if you believe that I have a heavenly bridge to sell
- July 29th, 2008
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Phornographic
Please don’t accuse me of corrupting minds I try to elevate them and do it rhymes but if stretching imagination is a crime I’ll cop a plea and do my time or maybe I’ll blame my relative who set up this site by saying he’s at f
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Open Sesame
This is not Ali Baba more likely Edgar Allen Poe going inside his mind to compose some stories of fright but he better remember the password or that portal will remain shut tight and he will end up like one of his characters breathless in infinite ni
- July 28th, 2008
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Simplicity
I thought you couldn’t stand alone I always tried to pair you with others this morning morning you said I need no other and I agreed pure essence no transformation just what it is
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Edenic
I saw some yellow sparkles just below the “Van Gogh” Bridge but I didn’t know I had an “Henri Rousseau” until it made the screen Another Rousseau dreamed of Eden until Man was put in chains it seems that things eden
- July 27th, 2008
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Garden of Eden
The Age of Innocence is about to end Eve looks down on her crafty beguiler Her eye is large, her expectations bigger He’s so smug, he knows she’s a goner unaltered, like all these photographs
- July 26th, 2008
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Come in Spirit Realm
I’m an agnostic when it comes to channeling connecting with the spirit realm but it kind of looks like that what’s happening I’ll channel a friend who says he does that and see if what I’ve said is sound
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Long John Sliver (sic)
This parrot looks rather sullen with just one good eye to spare if he weren’t a cavity creature I’d send him for some lens repair to get a patch he could disport and look like Long John Silver (but if you’re having trouble with him
- July 25th, 2008
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Marx Brothers Cartoon
Some years ago while practicing “The Inverted Mirror World”, hanging upside down over stream banks mainly I discovered a world of visual creatures laughable, scary, and inspirational by turns In this position bilateral symmetry reigns s
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Nubile Queen
Pretty lady, you caught my eye thanks to peripheral vision I saw you just in time for you were quickly vanishing and in seconds bid good-bye They say this kind of vision helps spot the lurking beast but secondarily and collaterally it helps make l
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Loving Couple
In shifting scenes of light and shadow it’s always good to have a second opinion I saw the man of dignified bearing with a tender regard for his wife but what I thought was “she” has crumbled into possibilities courtesy of my edit
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Spirit of Vegetation
Persephone is usually bedecked in flowers but here she wears her youth in green she stops and listens - a chariot roar! next stop a throne past Hades’ door
- July 24th, 2008
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Predator and Prey
The Ground Glass Menagerie has grown by two more beasts but that might soon drop to one but maybe not like Keat’s Urn this remains poised in eternity
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Cavity Councilmen
Two Cavity Councilmen discuss issues of the day “Who’s that guy always hanging around, taking digital pictures without squint or frown he seems to be happy and having fun but doesn’t he know we’re imaginary ones so he runs the
- July 23rd, 2008
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M.R.I.
Even Mother Nature has her own M.R.I. she uses it on infants and all her small fry to check their genes and see if they’re fit if not, they’re eaten or procreatively just not a hit they don’t need insurance to cover the scan it̵
- July 22nd, 2008
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Madonna and Child of Nature
This one’s more problematic more fraught with double meaning some theologians say nature also needs redeeming she’s more human and shows maternal love he wears the mask of nature and extends his hand but you might find something totally o
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Fury Excoriates High-Pitched Boxer
This is the second cavity shot I took through a hollowed out log eight feet in length the breach was enough to twist my camera making possible some playing with light and shadow though I did not see fully until the screen I had brought forth a boxer,
- July 21st, 2008
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Holmes Examines the Evidence
This was the first cavity shot I took in March ‘08 near Glade Stream Brook standing above some leafy growth I looked through an opening to the ground beneath I focused on the latter, put the former in blur just an experiment, nothing to lose I
- July 20th, 2008
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Mongol Warrior
A Cavity Shot is like a Mongol arrow it almost always hits its mark here a warrior sits astride his horse and pulls a sword from within his pouch Is he preparing to defend the beautiful white-faced visage from the looming specter in the upper left or
