winter wandering with native flora

i love the huckleberry bushes, the bishop pine and manzanita nearly blossoming! iphone nature photography. my friend and colleague deb asked me this question today: what is my experience as i connect to nature through my photography? 

love.

as i stand carefully next to the manzanita bush to reach a shot of some lichen,

i am pulled deeply into the moment with these beings.
they are different of course but so joyous.
they ground and celebrate simultaneously.
they are my mentors.

marna clarke— west marin (nature) photographer

unfortunately i had to crop this image so this web version does not exactly represent her work, however you probably get the idea…fabulous…i especially love (am seriously blown away by) her “bark” series (this photo(originally):Madrone 2007 #29)— see marna clarke’s beautiful work in january at the bolinas museum: http://www.bolinasmuseum.org/special_event10025.html
http://www.marnaclarke.com/Website/Bark_2005-09.html 

my photos in stinson

in stinson beach the house had these perfect wood panel walls, i loved my photos on these walls— something retro going on… usually i prefer them on white walls. hmmm…. 

buy a natural space photo for a friend today(click below) 
http://thenaturalspace.com/blog/?p=828 

photos of my photos continued…

my photos in acupuncture kitchen, in dogpatch on 3rd street in san francisco, california. i am so grateful to owner, caylie see for supporting my creativity, photography. http://www.acupuncturekitchen.com

natural space photos…in my bedroom

my current bedroom/studio in west marin with my photos adorning the walls… for this photo shoot i was playing with groups of photos…i love them in groups. and they change groups. these two photos were taken on a beach on the big island of hawaii, barely a crescent moon of sand— surrounded, nearly enveloped by these wild elongated trees and huge branches. (big island spirits: left photo: beach hwy pole 69.1,  right photo: beach hwy. pole 69.2)(the hawaiian tree spirits are very present in both of these photographs and you can actually see them on the large prints!
 

LARGE PRINTS (of many of my photographs— which i will continue to post on this blog over the next few posts) ARE FOR SALE NOW (27×35): prices range from: $300-600. smaller sizes and custom prints available. please email info@thenaturalspace.com to order now. i feel these photographs of nature heal people and spaces. yes. you may deepen your connection to nature through these images. these gorgeous white velvet, watercolor paper prints will fill any space with love! they also ground a room with their earthy nature. how rare it can be to feel comfortable and near the earth— inside a space.

photos available to purchase this holiday season…

LARGE PRINTS (of many of my photographs— which i will continue to post on this blog the next few posts) ARE FOR SALE NOW (27×35): prices range from: $300-600. smaller sizes and custom prints available. please email info@thenaturalspace.com to order now. i feel these photographs of nature heal people and spaces. yes. you may deepen your connection to nature through these images. these gorgeous white velvet, watercolor paper prints will fill any space with love! they also ground a room with their earthy nature. how rare is it to feel comfortable and near the earth— inside a space.

“climate instability”— vandana shiva downloads the real deal…

AMY GOODMAN: What is the effect of climate disruption on cultures? 

VANDANA SHIVA: The most important disruption of climate havoc on cultures is fear. Peaceful communities start becoming scared. For example, this year, as the monsoon failed in India, and its failure was much more extreme than normal droughts, farmers have waited to get a crop, and they haven’t got a crop. They become afraid. 

Beyond a point, as the water disappears, because your groundwater hasn’t being recharged, your rivers and streams haven’t been recharged, beyond a point, conflicts emerge in local communities, which is why the G-77 constantly refers to Darfur as linked to climate change with the disappearance of water from Lake Chad. 

AMY GOODMAN: Explain. 

VANDANA SHIVA: As the rainfall has failed in the sub-Saharan Africa, Lake Chad has shrunk. The communities that used to be supported in a very generous way by that lake are having less and less water. Pastoralists and settled agriculturalists have come in conflict. It so happens they belong to different religion. This has been presented as a religious conflict. It’s really a conflict that emerges from climate change and climate change degradation of already degraded environments. 
WATCH NOW! on democracy now:
http://i2.democracynow.org/2009/12/14/indian_environmentalist_vandana_shiva_it_is

hwy pole 69 series

hwy pole 69.1

the beautiful complicated web-like shadow below me on the sand in the morning. i was swept…

for more: http://thenaturalspace.com/blog/?p=828

today’s winter solstice download: integrating the shadow

winter solstice— going in…walking beside sleeping princess tamalpa.

sleeping princess tamalpa beside us. inside us.
lying on the grassy hillside
breathing the mountain
watching
alert
open love.

redwood

i met this new friend today. we hugged and i grounded, …felt soooo good.  home.  i basked in all of it with my slow motion iphone camera lense…the journey continues.

holiday cacao

fresh sweet cayenne peppers—deseeded, dehydrated, pulverized sprinkled into/onto flowing cacao…becoming queen vanilla, our best selling raw chocolate 4 inch by.5 inch lusciousness with a “hot” finish. divine! please email info@thenaturalspace.com to place orders for these 4 x .5 cacao queen vanilla bean hearts! plain cacao queen vanilla hearts available too!

pre-solstice lull in west marin

amanita— our holiday mushroom showed up today for all to see! she is beautiful!!! and the bishop pines, from down south… santa barbara originally.