Skyscape Pillows
Description: For years I’ve been photographing skyscapes of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona where I live. To see the modus operandi behind this characterization, please see the description in my Dances with Cloud Kachina collection at Fine Art America. All I can say in the brief space allotted here is that it is a creative act of Spirit - communing with Cloud Kachina - what the pueblo Indians of the southwest call the great force behind the sky, clouds, and weather generally speaking. It is neither exclusively nature mysticism as in elementals (i.e., sylphs) nor is it purely scientific as in crenelating contrails. It is both, depending on how you prefer to look at it.
Description: This is a picture of two of my favorite things to photographs in skyscapes: moons and contrails! April 9, 2019 was a particularly windy day in the desert, and the contrails left by the jets were moving and changing shape almost as rapidly as the neighboring clouds. I caught this one in several positions in relation to this beautiful moon in Gemini. Two minutes earlier, I caught it going right through the orb! (See the image entitled “Cresent IN Contrail.” This second one is called “Crescent AND Contrail” enhanced with the pinks and purples of the ongoing sunset.
Description: This lovely, simple full moon in Taurus was photographed on October 18, 2016 in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona about 50 miles south of Phoenix. Just a soft serene sphere of light grazing the the placid fields of heavenly blue like the majestic bovine it symbolizes. Imprinted upon its surface is a mysterious silver outline of its constellation and symbol.
