Las Vegas, August 2009

Dancer, Fiesta DC, 2009

Water.

"An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany." - Nick Cave

Preservation Hall Band, New Orleans, May 2009.

"Jazz is about being in the moment." - Herbie Hancock

fan light, Preservation Hall, New Orleans.

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart." - George Sand

flower, New Orlean, LA, May 2009


"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

French Quarter, New Orleans, LA, May 2009

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." - Maya Angelou

Assateague Island National Seashore, May, 2009

“I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.” - Drew Barrymore

Macon, Georgia. Downtown beauty shop.

"Pretending that we live does not make us alive." - Serj Tankian

time travel

The Blues Alley, Washington, DC, April 21, ????.

"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

connection

romance in the dairy isle

abandoned flower on the butter shelf. Harris Teeter, Washington, DC.

you never know...

Cherry blossom, Washington, DC, April 10, 2009.

"All glory comes from daring to begin." - Eugene F. Ware

Flower. Washington DC, March 2009.

“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.” - Gail Sheehy

bottom left, bathroom graffiti @ the Raven, Mt. Pleasant

"I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love." - Robert Tizon

rose colored glasses

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” - Arnold Newman

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

guess

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb

dark wonderland

wonderland ballroom. washington dc.

welcome to wanderscope

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe