Illinois River, Going Under

Same wave as yesterday's photo, four panels of what lies beneath...such a strong current--almost visceral, the power in these knots of surging water...

Tangentially...this reminds me of a public radio show I really dig called Undercurrents, which I listen to every weeknight when I am home. Host Greg McVicar, such a chill guy, plays this fascinating mix of Native voices, classic rock (in the true sense not the gak sense), people you've missed hearing from, new stuff from the oldies, newbies you can stand to listen to. A lot of times I'm working on photos and need a soundtrack to get lost in as I chip away at the image to see what it wants to be. This is a show you can kind of fall back into and let the music and images converse.
undercurrentsradio.net

Camping Near the Illinois River...

...and gazing...straight...down....

Unsheathing

From the land of waterfalls--Glide, OR
May 2011

Tarot Card Design - Le Pendu

My adaptation of a piece by Federico Cabrera, "End of Times," Rendered to be my tarot card of the month, Le Pendu, the Hanged (Wo)man.

corazón azul

Heidi Utz

Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, April 2011

Uneasy Intersections: Nature and Industry

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I'm starting a new series about the collision of nature and the industrial world. I shot this in 2005 near the Albuquerque, NM,trainyards and finally finished 6 years later. 

Patti Smith ^Ask the Angel^

I do so love this piece...

"Across the country through the fields
You know I see it written 'cross the sky
People rising from the highway
And war war is the battle cry
And it's wild wild wild wild.


Armageddon, it's gotten
No savior jailer can take it from me
World ending, it's just beginning
And rock and roll is what I'm born to be
And it's wild wild wild wild
Wild wild wild wild..."
"Ask the Angels," Patricia Lee Smith