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Aloft. Terns. Seabirds along the shore at Playa Del Rey in Southern California ... doing what we cannot .
Aloft Again. A vision of a most beautiful soul finally set free from the bondage of her suffering.

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2nd place tie : most successful image contest 07-28-24

In This Moment,
The morning wind at my cheek, my heart.
The Pacific cleansing my senses.
My bare feet on the wet sand,
bearing the weight of our slow cadence forward.

In this moment, holding ajar the gates of us,
you envelop me, flooding through me.
Breathing you in, I create and caress the bits and pieces of a look, a phrase. A moment.

Now, As I trod upon the small shells, the foam and bits of what was,
a piece is released at my feet.
Pausing and bending to see, It is considered, though imperfect.
Broken. Once whole, now adrift.

Yet. There YOU remain. Perfect. Always there in my quiet. W...

As a kid I was fascinated with photographs. Look. Life magazine. National Geographic. That well-captured interplay of light and shadow...the notion of people, places and moments - all suspended in time. My first "real" camera was a Minolta Srt101. I was seduced. As a teenager, I learned to develop film while working at Wyle Laboratories in El Segundo. I still recall the smell of the developer, my eyes adjusting to the red filter light, and the sheer magic and delight of watching images begin to emerge. Life, family and a career as a teacher and psychologist intervened, not to mention a few more film cameras. Eventually, there was digital. Liberation! Photography is the creative medium that has allowed me to share personal ...