Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

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In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Fresh beauty unfolds when perceiver and perceived engage in a love affair with one another.


So much of the world's beauty reveals itself only when we adjust our angle of view. In this case, I snowshoed out to a rock standing in the middle of a frozen lake. Because a depression in the ice had formed all around the rock, I was able to place my camera down into the 12-inch deep hole and shoot horizontally through the ice rather than the usual way - vertically, through the top. As always, fresh beauty is able to unfold when the perceiver and perceived come into a cooperative relationship where each engages in a love affair with the other.

Photo: Ice on Dream Lake; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; February 24, 2014

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