One of the most important principles in the spiritual journey is the fact that we always view Truth or Reality through a particular lens.

Photography involves taking a unique and particular perspective on a subject, one that helps open up fresh ways of seeing for the viewer. For me, that means aiming for a layered effect, as in this sunrise photo, or looking at a scene from a ground-level perspective, as in the two wildflower photos. I never present a landscape setting "as it is," but rather through a particular perspective. Similarly, one of the most important principles in the spiritual journey is the fact that we always view Truth or Reality through a particular lens, filter or perspective. We never see things "as they are," but rather through the lens of our own individual, psychological, cultural, gendered, racial, philosophical and religious filters. After all, that is precisely what the Divine is after in creating this world - knowing Itself, Himself and Herself through an infinite number of filters and then marveling at the freshness, nuance and surprise that each filter provides. There is no other filter exactly like ours! And that is true as well for the 7.3 billion other human beings who inhabit the planet. Add to that the perspectives held by the billions of other life forms, and the result is an endless source of amazement available to the Creator. For we human beings, this means both that we remain forever humble (realizing that we only know the Truth through one or several particular fliters), AND that we will always and forever need the perspectives and filters of others to fill out what is lacking in our own. This keeps us ever reaching out toward one another and serves to bond together the plethora of different ways of seeing into one multi-faceted Whole :)

Photos: (Top) Sunrise on Medicine Bow Peak; (Middle) Rose Crown / Queen's Crown, an unnamed lake and Medicine Bow Peak; (Bottom) Mountain Gentians and pond; All three photos were taken in the Snowy Range (WY) on August 21-23, 2015