The Aerial Horizon

Sharing perspective from above the trees. Forget where your feet are and just enjoy the view. ~ Original aerial photography ~ Website: http://mcandrewsphotography.zenfolio.com/

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In search of a Constant

Currents define the path ahead of us while our wake defines the nature and direction of the course we chose. Whether on the sea or in the heavens, our motion through the gas and liquid that surround us is ephemeral, yet well understood. Those following in our wake will either share in the turbulence of our path or benefit from the experience of our passage through a troubled atmosphere.…

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Once

Do something three times, you have a tradition…do something 100 times, you have a habit…do something 10,000 times, you have mastery…but some experiences are so earthshaking that once forever changes your approach to your world and the people you love. None of us are really all that good at openly expressing how we feel. I don’t mean how we feel about little things like the crest of a wave that…

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On the Way to the Sky

We follow rays of light, illuminating floating particles, into the depths of reflections as we pass through this place on our way to the sky.

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Perception

We often think in terms of “half full” or “half empty.” We simplify the world around us into a binary choice of perception and, often, that is enough to define our world view. But things can be more complicated when we set course on an uncertain path…there are inherent hazards on the horizon, not the least of which is the unknown, and there are many ways to approach them. One fact drives the…

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Spirits Rise but the Ghosts Remain

As time passes and we imagine the distance we have travelled since that morning in September 2001, our spirits have risen from the depths, but our visions of the ghosts of that day remain. We see them represented everywhere, in the dark, in all light, in all colors, and in black and white. We seek solace and a momentary peace in those images as our memories stir and we resolve to Never Forget.

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Air Masses Meet

Air Masses Meet…in advance of the season’s change and suddenly the cold air is briefly upon us.

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A Storm on the Horizon

They grow innocuously from rising molecules fomenting as temperatures rise, unnoticed until they reach a mass and intensity that releases their fury on the once placid earth beneath them. They electrify the atmosphere and cut the land with knifelike showers dragged along their course. We watch in wonder the evolving life of the storm with gift of distance.

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The Road Home

We spend half our lives on the road and in faraway places, seldom processing the distance or the accumulated time, but always aware of the separation. The splendor and allure of the aerial horizon with its variable underlying patterns of earth, sea, and clouds and the constant relative motion of the heavens above, in varying degrees of visibility, keep us driving forward, focused and engaged in…

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Rounding the Sun

As we take our first steps into the new year, we pause to notice a sundog echoing the light of the rising sun, as though attempting to capture its splendor…A metaphor for holding the light in our souls as we embark on a new year. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a year filled with light, good will, peace , and kindness.

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Nexus

In the places where here earth and heaven meet, we find a window to our souls and all the world that defines our passions.

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The Message in Our Wake

To those passing this way before us, we recognize the value of the messages left in your wake. The trembling molecules of air and water vapor show us the nature of your path…from stillness to laminar flow, to the moment that their excitation cools in the rapidly slowing atmospheric river of expanding gas…we imagine the form of the unseen ship meeting the currents of the air and we prepare to skim…

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The Little Big Things

I saw the musical in Soho recently and, if in London, it is one that I would recommend everyone see. Imagine being deprived of doing a thing that you love, moving forward, you recognize the little things that bring you joy…those are Big Things that make you whole. Those things may change with life experience. Riding home in the back of a Boeing 777, looking out the window on departure, I see a…

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Time, Memory, and Emotion

The relationship between time, memory, and emotion is purposefully ill-defined. Presented with an image, or a smell, or simply the way a September morning’s light strikes the earth, we are taken back to a moment in time…more than a memory, as we feel it all again…let it sink in…the vague chill over our bodies, the ringing in our ears, and the feeling of uncertainty…feeling it all over again, I…

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Echoes of Light

A drop of molten light echoed in the atmosphere, adding definition to the edges of earth. In a narrow view of a wide horizon, the effect of the sunrise becomes clear in a moment of transition along the deep shadows of the Sierra Madre Oriental range. We witness light falling toward earth in the illumination of dissipating vapor as day breaks and night recedes.

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Echoes of Light

A drop of molten light echoed in the atmosphere, adding definition to the edges of earth. In a narrow view of a wide horizon, the effect of the sunrise becomes clear in a moment of transition along the deep shadows of the Sierra Madre Oriental range. We witness light falling toward earth in the illumination of dissipating vapor as day breaks and night recedes.

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A Hole in the Heavens

We experience the increasing turbulence of a summer afternoon as storms crop up around us and we look to the towering nimbus clouds as they cast their ominous shadows, some shrouded by lenticular clouds in soft webs of vaporous netting that stretch as the underlying clouds grow up into the tropopause, disrupting the serenity of the smooth cloud tops. All around us is drama and we take in the…

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Overflight

There is a dizzying feeling in watching birds and airplanes fly overhead, the closer we look, the more details we see, the more captivated in the overflight we become and all sense of earth evaporates beneath our feet…we become part of the sky, filled with the energy and emotion that comes from flight.

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