"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while, are shrouded in oblivion."- Marcus Aurelius Fog tells this natural story better than anything #58mm #Photography #Art #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #blackandwhite #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I've been with new subject material since hiking is not really the vibe right now. #58mm #Photography #Art #abstract #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Like alien grass #58mm #Photography #Art #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #abstract #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Happy weird holidays #58mm #Photography #Art #Mentalhealth #Meditation #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

"Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully, just as a ripened olive might drop, praising the earth that nourished it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth." — Marcus Aurelius #58mm #Photography #Art #Mentalhealth #FineArt

I love elevating graveyards during the cold months. Even better with a weird old lens I love weird. #58mm #Photography #Macro #Art #graveyard #Nature #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I've been loving this vintage lens. I was skeptical! We're encouraged to buy thousand dollar equipment. I have been having fun breaking that down and expanding #58mm #Photography #Macro #Art #vintage #Nature #Mentalhealth #Meditation #graveyard #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I've been struggling to find subjects with the change of seasons, temperature, and options - the usual isn't usual anymore. Perspectives can and change like the seasons; it's natural. #Photography #Art #Abstract #birds #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #blackandwhite #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I'm not sure what I was trying to focus on. Does it matter #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Nature shows us that it is what's inside that matters most. As seen here, and in many natural cycles, the battered, dead, broken parts give way to the only thing that matters to the future. #Photography #Art #Abstract #Nature #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

While examining dead tendrils, I noticed this explosion of life and transformation, and it made me think about how the universe we live in demonstrates that the queerest of things are also the butterflies of the world. That's a universal truth #Photography #art #nature #equality #meditation

The lifecycle of a berry #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

My hiking adventures are whatever I want them to be, whatever I can focus on long enough to ascend. #Photography #Art #Abstract #Nature #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #blackandwhite #FineArt #PicturesOfNothin

I don't think anything but this macro lens could translate my mind's eye. A dead piece of shrubbery caught my attention as it does. #Photography #Art #Abstract #Nature #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #botanical #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

The marsh is now cold, and everything is dead already. Yet, with a perspective shift, it's a warm sunset and flowers. #Photography #Art #Abstract #Nature #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #color #sunset #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I just love what black and white can reduce a scene to. One of my favorite headspaces is shifting into the perspective that seeks out such bare, simple, but communicative moments #Photography #Art #Abstract #Nature #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #blackandwhite #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Perspective is life. Anything can be beautiful, any moment can be meaningful, and every moment can be made into an act of awe and appreciation #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #blackandwhite #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Check out this scene. So much curiosity on a leaf, I would have just walked right past before I learned how to dismiss the noisy mind for a fraction of a second #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

My favorite curious things are back at the marsh. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #blackandwhite #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

This stuck me. Even the tiniest things in nature show us through action that emergence from protection is part of the life cycle. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Fall brings some of my favorite subjects - the dried-up husks of what's left. This memory of a summer flower caught my attention for standing tall, alone, ravaged yet happy, being what's left #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

In nature, there is beauty in the whole cycle. This berry wears its dead, used-up shell as wings, illuminated by the color of the cycle #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Amazing how rapidly summer's abundance has given way to fall. This sentiment is shared in observing the natural world, where each layer gives way to a new, different form of vibrant persistence #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Mentalhealth #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

My thoughts drift to all the men who battle their demons in silence, unable to bare their soul to another. You are not alone, my brothers! 🖤 #mensmentalhealth #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #youarenotalone #endthestigma

Beautiful, intentional, cyclic, impermanence, fragility, imperfection #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

#Alternating current. The unseen, profitable commodity that keeps us fat and happy. The machine that powers the Machine. The one that tells us everything is fine. #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #Newtopographics #Nightphotography #Colorado #Nikon

The cycle of life is vibrant and full of so many temporary moments #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I'm going through a hard time. Hard enough to be digging through old pictures; do what you can, creativity is restorative, that is the point. #Depression #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

“Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.” — Marcus Aurelius #FineArtPhotography #photography #FineArt #Macro #Meditation #fall #PicturesOfNothing

Nature's fall abundance is so colorful and so brief. This was a sprig of dead forest litter. Looking fabulous #FineArtPhotography #FineArt #Macro #Meditation #fall #PicturesOfNothing

I'm really going to lean into weird this fall #FineArtPhotography #FineArt #Macro #Meditation #fall #PicturesOfNothing

I walk miles to be enraptured by a dead tendril, and I love it "The spiral is the path of the soul towards itself." - Khalil Gibran #FineArtPhotography #Stoicism #Macro #Meditation #blackandwhite #PicturesOfNothing

Fall decorations are popping up #FineArtPhotography #Stoicism #Macro #Meditation #blackandwhite #PicturesOfNothing

I expanded today, a bit closer to my truth - less shame about my past. It can be scary, but it doesn't have to be. This image can be frightful, or a reminder of fun memories. #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #blackandwhite #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." — Wayne Dyer These are a strange fixture in my favorite nature site, so why not integrate. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I love the process of being captured by the tendrils. Tiny, fragile, immortalized in death, reaching for something only to find nothing. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #BlackandWhite #monochrome #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Fall is full of decay and abundance. One is not more important than the other #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.” — Heraclitus I was feeling abstract tonight - one of my favorite ways to feel #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” - Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

“Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #reflection #PicturesOfNothing

Much like my mind, my lens lets me be precise about what ascends to relevance - and more importantly, what does not. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Flower #blackandwhite #minimalism #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

I've been distracted lately, but in a good way. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing #FungiFriends

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it." Seneca A dead leaf, a heart, a study, a moment of being alive. Finding beauty in nature. #Photography #Macro #Art #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #blackandwhite #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Perspective is everything. I'm finding so much beauty, so many stories, all around us. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus Camping again because of course I am lurking around with my camera 😂 #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Love it love. Fragile, relentless, consuming. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Spider city today! One of the joys of photography for me is the surprises, like the 3rd spider on the top. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Was it "more beautiful" when full of color and impermanence? Perspective is the answer. #100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing

Hiding to survive, is the way of nature. What makes things special, is letting them be seen. Every day, my lens lets me see, and being seen is beautiful #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #blackandwhite #naturephotography #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing #FungiFriends