Photo Page Extra 2

More older shots that seem to be worth looking at again. They are smaller images than the regular photo pages due to the limited storage that is available. There is no ongoing theme here. These images may change from time to time.

	Posted 4/20/2003 Taken 9/5/2001 Rocky outcrops protrude from the soft blanket of soil like the bones of the planet's past. We who are not geologists or paleontologists look at these ancient layers and wonder vaguely about life and time. There is sometimes an uneasy sense we are not sufficiently aware of profound things as we turn away and hurry on.



	Posted 4/20/2003 Taken 11/22/2001 After 9/11/2001, there were flags everywhere as Americans sought to reassure each other and to express sympathy for the victims of the terrorists. It has been said of China, let the sleeping dragon sleep, for if it wakes... Something similar might have been said of America. Somnolently secure in its ocean-girded realm, America was preoccupied by trade and it dabbled more or less benevolently in the rude doings of upstart nations. In a few hours, they say, America changed. The cost of that change seems to be great, and it will be years before all the reactions to a new vulnerability have been played out. We always knew it was easier to destroy than to build, and the more we elaborate our technology, the truer that becomes. Not only did terrorists use America's technology against the country, but the dependency America has on the technology and its energy needs is an unfixable and exploitable weakness. For whatever good or ill effects, America is wide awake now.



	Posted 4/20/2003 Taken 9/1/2001 A different mood here in this humble image. I include it to recall the uninhabited places one may travel through, even in the midst of the stupefying human population expansion of the time in which we are living. I make no "political" point here, but it is worth remembering we are in the long-predicted geometric up-slope of our numbers. Six billion plus and rising, approximately double the number in the world than when I was born. Also, this is one of the few images I have labored over to remove telephone poles and wires. As a photographer, I sure do get royally tired of them.



	Posted 4/20/2003 Taken 9/1/2001 Trees are an ongoing theme -- they are giant plants among which we live, if we are lucky. When I find a tree that stands by itself in its natural form, I think of my camera. The people here are useful for perspective, and they may not be aware the the tall life form towering over them, only of its shade.



	Posted 4/20/2003 Taken 1/6/2002 Here is another tree, but a different mood and a different season. The snow clings to the branches, and melts on the warmer buildings and sidewalk. The snow is still falling...



	Posted 4/20/03 Taken 10/13/2001 The Susquehanna River rolls along under an October rainstorm. The photographer got wet. The photographer wishes the low rumble of the thunder and fresh smell of the rain could be included, but a bit more technology is needed for that.



	Posted 4/20/03 Taken 10/22/2001 I found this fellow out standing in his field. More precisely, he was standing on his dinner. If you needed to make a trip on foot through rough country, the sure-footed and sensible donkey would make a good companion.



	Posted 4/20/03 Taken 10/28/2001 One of the vast networks of tiny fungal filaments that penetrate into every microscopic nook of the soil somehow decided, at a particular time and place, to throw up a huge structure from which to spread its spores. And not a bad job, at that...



	Posted 4/20/03 Taken 10/22/2001 Stopping along the highway at an overlook, the photographer observed forty miles of scenery, and this ladybug trundling earnestly along. Aphids beware!



	Posted 4/20/03 Taken 10/28/2001 And here is some of the scenery alluded to in the previous comment. Hyner View is a good place to really see the topography that is typical of central Pennsylvania.



	Posted 4/20/03 Taken 10/22/2001 This cemetery was very affecting. Some cemeteries are hidden away, or neglected, or dank and depressing, but this one stands amid the beauty of rolling hills. The thoughts that pass through the mind are different in such a place, and it is worth it to have a quiet visit with the dead once in a while.