Most of my adult life was spent in a world that was paved over. Hard surfaces such as concrete, brick, stone, marble and asphalt. A physical relocation to Idaho later in life, revealed wildflowers, saplings, young sprigs, creeks, streams, green meadows and where old trees fall to decay, and feed the land.
The more we fail to control, the more life is preserved.
The sequence of your disparate pictures is so interesting. Yes, they are of Idaho and it seems that two are processed in some kind of HDR, but what else binds them beyond each is an impressive view of nature's carving of the landscape? I have some early ideas.
Rick Otto: Shoshone Falls - aged a bit
This first picture shows a magnificent central energy. It's positive in the center with multiple waterfalls doing their work sculpting the rocks as they thunder down the hillside.
Rick Otto: Typical creek in a typical canyon
The second picture here is such a contrast. The energy is in the powerful shoulders of hills dominating the valley below. It's the inverse of the first picture; a peaceful center!
Rick Otto: "Balanced Rock"
And what of the 3rd. It's in a way, what's left after all the forces of water and wind brutally carve the rock, crumbing off dust and fragments over the eons to make an appearance in which we can recognize a person. So this might represent us over time, transient in nature.
But, Rick, that's just me, maybe too "artsy fartsy" as some suspect, but really there had to be an underlying reason for you to sequence these picture out of so many you have taken.
Asher
