Compare and contrast these two portraits. The first is an orangutan kept captive in a zoo. The second is me, a lab technician who has demonstrated a record of reliable attendance. Oh wait. One advantage I have over the orangutan is my relative freedom to get in my car and take a road-trip (whenever work and finances allow). We hominids have done some useful things with our brains. We’ve built shelters that protect our things, our work and even ourselves from the environment. But with our usual shortsightedness, we didn’t anticipate that the subliminal hum of ballasts and the flickering hellish green cast of fluorescent lamps would drive some of us bonkers. Every once in a while I miss the sky. Careful observation has revealed that in our universe, generally, everything is progressing from order to disorder. But there are lots of eddies - places were energy gets sucked into swirling vortexes - where, briefly, order can arise from disorder. Everyday, most of us make some small contr...
a photographer's take on ART, SCIENCE & THEOLOGY in the Pacific Northwest