Journal Entries

If you happen to visit Redwood National Park during the early autumn you may have a chance to see the seasonal Elk Rut. Within the aptly named Elk Prairie, this impressive bull elk actively defends his harem of up to 20 cows from challengers. In order to maintain his peak position within the heard he quickly chases them off any other males who wander too close. The juvenile bull being pursued in these photos has just reach the age where it's seen as potential mating threat, and is forced away by the …

Paco De Lucia - Zyryab Paco de Lucia - Tico Tico Isaac Albeniz's Asturias, played by Ana Vidovic Bulerías - Manolo Sanlucar La Puerta del Príncipe - Manolo Sanlucar Tomatito - Bulerias Francisco Tarrega's Capricho Arabe, played by Andrés Segovia Frederico Moreno Torroba's Fandanguillo, played by Andrés Segovia Malagueña - Pepe Romero Manolo Sanlucer - Solea La Catedral, by Augustas Barrios, played by Ana Vidovic

I wrote the Mayan Kingdom ebook after my 2008 trip down to see the Mayan archeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Their civilization really interested largely because it reached a height as technological advanced and social complex as ancient Rome, but somehow their culture was completely decimated and largely forgotten, and never really made it into most history books. Today there is a lot of renewed interest in Maya, largely due to the 2012 prophecy. While I do have an opinion on this, I f…

Singing Bowls Hang Drum Gamelan Taiko

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." - Albert Einstein

"The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth.All things are connected, like the blood that unites us all.Man did not weave the web of life, he is a strand in it; whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."- Chief Seattle ... Modernities commodification of nature stands in such sharp contrast to native peoples vision of a living, breathing earth.

"Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called." "Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right. Art is a language, instrument of knowledge, instrument of communication..." Quotes from the french artist Jean Dubuffet

I want to put a spotlight on the natural world, and to amplify the space it takes within the viewer's mind; to remind people that we share this planet with other species, fellow creatures that we evolved along side of; to share the remaining wild places, in hopes that they are protected instead of forgotten and lost.  

We humans tend to under-estimate the intelligence of other species, or at least the level of their awareness. They may lack a common language and the ability for complex thought to put exactly what they are feeling into words, but they are sentient.  Many of these creatures are capable of feeling the same emotions as we do, since we inherited an early form of our limbic and nervous systems from a common ancestor. These creatures have been shaped by time and nature, evolving along side of us, and posse…