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From Africa With Love

on February 11, 2024February 11, 2024 By Mark Wade 2 Comments

Spring starts March 19th
Like it’s a thing
Say the African daisies

Cover Photo: Ramona looking eastward. This patch of non-indigenous daisies has become a source of colorful joy.

In a nearby deep ravine flows runoff from several days of rain. Seasonal creeks may last a week after a good soaking. Multiple weeks will create flows up to a month.This year, we returned to typical scarcity for water.

All phone candids

Treemendous

on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 By Mark Wade

Common knowledge
Oaks are stubborn
And do whatever they want

Cover photo from San Dieguito River Park. (9) stitched images – happens when you travel with one lens and it happens to be telephoto.

Considerable

on December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 By Mark Wade 6 Comments

We are told to be afraid
The world is falling apart…

Consider the moon

Easily we are swayed into fear.
Don’t look at the moon. Consider it. Think about it.
Let it take you to the wonder of our lives.

Simplicity

on December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 By Mark Wade

There is a deep desire
A soul’s delightful struggle
Deciding which calms deeper

The crashing of waves
Power, translated through the sand
The heartbeat of God

A peaceful sunset
The day
Set to slumber

Chopin’s concerto
Beethoven’s sonata
Musical manipulation of the heart

I cannot fix the world.

Let’s Get Cookin’

on July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 By Mark Wade 2 Comments

It is enough
To see the flower
To be the flower

A couple of months ago, I dedicated my youtube channel for photography education.
It has been a pleasure to extol the virtues of thinking outside the box and to search out a personal “voice.”
Along the way, I had to challenge myself to get back into the arduous dreamscape impression way of making images. Challenges and prompts are creative killers for me. The process needs to happen organically based on available information.
Stationing myself at the back of our property, I forced some of what I used to do. It was clunky and uncomfortable. As time rolled, I released the challenge and my body/mind remembered it’s little used muscle memory.
Wait. I had to wait for some things.
Find color, tones, structure.
Create impressions with negative space compositions.
Now armed with these arrows in my quiver, now, I could go to work.
I say it is arduous. It is, only because one needs to release all forethought, expectation, stress and become part of all that is visible.

Here is the only product for my efforts. Double exposure. One long, one short. By nature of the process, no textures need to be added.

My YT channel now contains the basics of camera handling and how settings will affect the final output. There are two main sections “Basics” and “Basics In Depth”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YuAdyEdjABbVeHvK4kIzQ