Shaw Pond in Autumn; copyright © reserved 2011, Richard Lovison
The colors seem to be past peak though still beautiful. Topaz’s Simplify filter was used to create a slight watercolor effect.
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Shaw Pond in Autumn
Monday, October 17th, 2011Above All Else, I Want to See Things Differently
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Shaw Pond in heavy fog; copyright © reserved 2011, Richard Lovison
I wonder what it would be like if I could see things as they really are, right now, in the moment, without any preconceived ideas and defining terms from past experience? Could those images be captured?
“…if you would withdraw all your own ideas from it, and look upon it with a completely open mind. It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope. Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe.”
Course in Miracles
The photograph was taken on a very foggy morning at Shaw Pond. A solarisation filter in post processing was used in the first image to bring out the foreground a bit more.
Shaw Pond in heavy fog 2; copyright © reserved 2011, Richard Lovison
The second image had a bi-color filter applied in post processing.
The Edge of Change
Monday, October 18th, 2010The following photographs were taken in the early morning shortly after the heavy fog at Shaw Pond started to lift.
Shaw Pond 1 - copyright © reserved 2010, Richard Lovison
Shaw Pond 2 - copyright © reserved 2010, Richard Lovison
Shaw Pond 3 - copyright © reserved 2010, Richard Lovison
Shaw Pond 4 - copyright © reserved 2010, Richard Lovison
I find these brief moments in time, when a major change occurs or is about to occur, the most captivating. And it doesn’t have to be only moments in time as I find the edges of physical change just as intriguing. For example, where the water meets the shore or where the forest ends and a field begins will also capture my attention.
I crave these “elemental things.”
Just Weeds
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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I read a book, it seems ages ago, entitled Behaving as if the God in all Life Mattered by Machaelle Wright. It was at a time when I was caretaker for the Albert Schweitzer Center, a museum dedicated to the memory of Dr. Schweitzer. Machaelle’s philosophy in many ways is in parallel to Dr. Schweitzer’s “reverence for life”.
In the small community my wife and I reside in there are those who consider the vegetation growing in Shaw Pond, a small body of water near our home, an annoyance. I can understand their position as many of them choose to swim in Shaw Pond as well as use motor boats.
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I personally see the body of water as a peaceful pond, utilized by beavers, fish and snakes, visited by geese and populated with many forms of vegetation in the water along its shores… a beautiful body of water to canoe or kayak in. Those that wish to use motor boats and choose to swim see a need to trap and kill the beavers, chase off the geese and throw endless sums of money at what seems a losing battle of destroying a couple of invasive species of vegetation through the use of toxic chemicals or other less harmful methods.
I am not so sure this is a great idea. It seems so radical and lacks balance but I guess that’s just one person’s opinion. It just seems to me that the world has lost its mind. Nothing seems to be considered sacred. Everything can be made to bend to whatever shape to suit our will no matter what the consequence. I don’t know, maybe it has always been this way, though in my opinion, if we don’t soon change our ways, we can kiss this world’s natural wonders as well as all that lives, goodbye.
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“Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours and what is mine?
‘Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it hereWe satisfy our endless needs and
justify our bloody deeds,
in the name of destiny and the name
of GodAnd you can see them there,
On Sunday morning
They stand up and sing about
what it’s like up there
They call it paradise
I don’t know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye”The Last Resort – Eagles
