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The encouragement to open a photography website has not been an unreasonable one. Makes sense on its face. I take a lot of pictures. Many people would enjoy them. Some would even buy them. But these perfectly reasonable reasons aren’t reason enough for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I know why. Can I explain it? Reasonably? I hope not. But here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father flew airplanes. Cool ones. At least for a small boy who knew nothing of war nor of the brutality between people. Airplanes, my father’s airplanes, were exotic. And amazing. And \u2026. Up there. Until my 40s if I heard a plane, I looked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I turned 30, I realized I was yearning for the West Coast of the US. When I was 40, I learned that vistas, long views, over lively terrain was an essential ingredient of my spiritual landscape – hence the West Coast, or, in fairness to the topographically challenged, open waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I turned 50, I had committed to realizing fantastic structures through 3d visualization. These visualizations leaned heavily on well taken photographs of materials. I took the camera and went texture hunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My texture bounties were thin in favor of moody skies, wispy moments, quirky light. I haven’t been able to stop pointing the lens at these phenomena since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the facts, or less concretely, the events. These are the parts of the story I can cram into word packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why me? Why now? What is it about cloudscapes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know less about this than anything else about me. The events, the words, do not fully explain it. Maybe reasonably they do. But not fully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To fully understand, I have to be of no mind. I have to abandon reason. I have to be carried away. I have to feel more than think. I have to listen more than speak. I have to move, puzzle, fail more than sit. I have to enjoy more than understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clouds form as they do because, science. I love science, understanding, being swept up in the grandeur of the Atlantic Gyre. But that’s not why my lens is drawn to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I take pictures of cloudscapes because the Earth is playful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is beyond reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The encouragement to open a photography website has not been an unreasonable one. Makes sense on its face. I take a lot of pictures. Many people would enjoy them. Some would even buy them. But these perfectly reasonable reasons aren’t reason enough for me. Now I know why. Can I explain it? Reasonably? I hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,22,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-awe","category-field-notes","category-photos","category-refl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}