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Shadows In The Darkness

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When you’re deep underground things change. Your perception changes. What would normally be a path of sand leading you forward can become a river of dreams. Each dream a flash of light moving together, mixing, forming even better dreams as they tumble forward to wherever dreams go. The lightest of them must be happy dreams, the darkest, nightmares. They become the shadows in the darkness.

They congregate near the edges of the flow, where the stream is slowest, forming larger and more frightening dreams, always looking for the deepest shadows and the darkest places to stay. To hold on. This isn’t like being up above ground where the morning can come and save you from the terror. Here the dreams can last as long as they want to. Or as long as you allow them to.

When you’re deep underground things change. Dreams become real, both good and bad. You can not help but visit the stream of dreams, and be drawn into its flow, just try and stay away from the edges.

Abstract Art

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Nobody does abstract art like Mother Nature. Walking through Upper Antelope canyon is a spectacular event in itself and it is only made better by experiencing a view like this. This is not a static view. Moments later there wasn’t a trace of this combination of light and dark and all the shades in between, left. The shapes stay the same, this is about as close to eternal as you’re going to come in the natural world, but the light filtering in from the ceiling above and its intensity that allowed it to bounce and reflect from wall to wall, ceiling to floor and back again, compounded the layers of color until this particular moment in time was formed.

This isn’t an image the photographer created by causing any of this to happen. This is just a reaction to the sudden creation of an incredible moment and having the common sense to push the shutter while nearly blinded by beauty. Contrary to what you may have heard I can do common sense and this may be one of my finest examples. I need to be immersed in wonder like this as often as possible. And to share it with you.

Zowie!

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Upper Antelope Canyon  Arizona

How’s that for a blast of color on Hump day? This is high-octane stuff this morning to get you going for that last push towards the weekend. If this was tea it would be the visual equivalent of Morning Thunder. If you’re a tea drinker I’m sure you remember Morning Thunder by Celestial Seasonings. It had the picture of a buffalo galloping across the side of the box and roughly the equivalent of a 55 gallon drum of caffeine in each cup. If that didn’t crank you up you better call 911.

This is Antelope canyon, or more specifically the Upper Antelope canyon. Because of its configuration, it being contained in a high ridge, and continuing through from one side to the other, you get more light in it and more intense colors than the lower Antelope canyon.. The lower Antelope canyon is one you descend into and has a narrower opening in the ground above that let’s in less light, so you get more muted colors. It’s a physics thing, you have to go there and experience it yourself for it to make sense.

Since I didn’t have my shot of Morning Thunder this morning that’s all the science stuff I’m up to today. We’ll let the colors do the talking instead.