Author: WmX

I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.

star shower

The brightest single beam, at 0.4 mW, is below the 1.0 mW Class II limit
Took down the Christmas light, the infamous Star Shower, which sold out in Charlottesville retail locations last December.The brightest single beam, at 0.4 mW, is below the 1.0 mW Class II limit.

the sacred and the profane

headstone
Headstone in the oak woods near Jarman’s Gap road.
There are varying ways to interact with the natural world. The graveyard up top is in a harmonious interaction, an elemental gracious return to earth. And then there are the rest of us, the oafs.
There are varying ways to interact with the natural world. The graveyard up top is a harmonious interaction, an elemental gracious return to earth.
And then there are the despoilers. Same woods, same hill, different mindset.

still point

Town Creek sunrise

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
–T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, Burnt Norton