Blueness and The Passing of a Butterfly

TRAINS :: ART & MUSIC IN MOTION

There is nothing like standing within a few feet of a rail track, iPhone camera in hand, and listening to the warning sounds of an oncoming train... a fast moving train which is building up a joy within you as if you were once again a child.

The oncoming engines with their cover-your-ears explosion of warning is hard to beat for pure excitement, but it also makes it hard to shoot the engines as much as you want to.

The heaviness against the rails, the feeling of the wind, the smells of the huge beast moving through the air, the music and rhythm of the tons of metal on those narrow rails is pure adrenalin rush. Watching for the different types of cars and the ones with graffiti art on them is the big additional high.

Simply put, since I was a child running outside to watch the trains go past, I have loved them. Back then, no graffiti, just the big wait for the red caboose and a wave good-bye shared, and the scent of creosote.

1. Santa Fe Midnight
2. Side-Tracked Freight
3. Between the Rails
4. Under Carriage
5. Graffiti I
6. Graffiti II

posted via iPhone 4S

Dreamfield : Trees with Eyes, Lightning

Firestorm in My Mind

TRAINS : NIGHT STUFF

1. Green Street Rails with Venus
2. Warning Lights at Green Street

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all photos shot with, blogged with, and posted via iPhone 4S

TRAINS: GRAFFITI

I love trains!!

1. Layered Graffiti
2. Up Close - Yellow Black
3. Blue Oh - 793909
4. BNSF in Sleet/Rain
5. BNSF 793523 at Sunset - un-appd, captured while moving at fast speed.

My iPhone video on my new YouTube account devoted to trains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L834lFfETP4&sns=em

posted via iPhone 4S

TREE SERIES

Part of Tree Series which I am always working on. Trees have so much character and offer me a sense of well-being and peace when I walk amongst them or even just sit and study their infinite variety of structure. They always seem to speak to me in some quiet way. This tree in particular always makes me stare. It's beautiful in its starkness, regardless of its missing half.

1. Wholeness Deleted
2. Blue Light Night

posted via iPhone 4S

MIST and BLUE and YOU SOMEWHERE

posted via iPhone 4S

RAIN DAY - DOWNTOWN

1. Sitting in the Rain
2. Umbrella Required
3. Light it Up

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posted via iPhone 4S

TRAINS

"Flying By" ::

This train was coming through Tupelo between Spring St. and S.Green St. and moving very fast!
Captured with iPhone 4S.

ORGANIZED CHAOS . . .

and the dynamics of city structures can silently speak or shout their possibilities. We must look and listen in order to receive.

BEDSIDE LANDSCAPE

LIGHT'S UNEXPECTED EFFECTS

The Light of Storms


Light can do many things to us and for us. It can speak of memories, or it can provoke images in our minds of what might have been or it can just show us how beautiful the world around us really is.


Chair and Rose Are There, But You Are Not (In Memory of Jimmy Pitts)

The Night of Two Moons


Evening on the Patio Without You


How Many Conversations Lost


Factory in Mill Town


Through the Window into Thoughts


Light of Spirits Past

SKYBRIDGE TO MY DREAM

The Rebuilt Ocean Springs, MS Bridge to Biloxi - post Katrina. It's been my dream to live there in Ocean Springs after my first visit in November 2004.

COLLAGE :: ABSTRACTION

Park Heights Grill

Two Cups in Waiting


Coffee with You


Tiled Columns - Movement in Disorder

COLLAGE :: ABSTRACTION

Park Heights Restaurant

The Lights Were Magical

Inside Outside



Collage and abstraction are my favorite way of working with the iPhone and apps. I feel this is the most challenging process with much thought and planning involved... not just "another appd" image. In the end, hopefully I have created a most rewarding image through an evolutionary process.
[Posted via iPhone]

TREE OF LIFE

Womb

CLEMATIS POD

The Daily Pic on Pixels

PROBE DATA COMPONENTS :: FOR D-2

Computer chips on right are equipped with data-gathering abilities built within each chip ( which are really green). These will gather critical information to help with TVN's research into tornadoes.

The chips go inside of the specially designed foam "bottle" shape (which is really a dark pinkish color).

From there, each probe will be out-fitted with a small parachute, placed inside of the canon system, and then shot upwards from inside of the Dominator-2 into a specific area of a tornado forming system.

GPS and radio will help the team find the probes and gather the much desired data.

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Photo shot in Tupelo, MS May 16, 2011 at The Renasant Center for Ideas: http://www.cdfms.org/m/renasant/index.asp

Many thanks to Darryl Winstead
for taking time from his extremely busy day, for his explanations, courtesy, and understanding of my great love of, and interest in, weather and the Dominator's techie gadgetry!

THE ORIGINAL DOMINATOR

My personal experiences in getting to acturally see and then ride in The Dominator influenced me to take the vehicle to a dreamy state... a sort of Magical Mystery Chase within my mind.


Dreaming the Chase I


Dreaming the Chase II


Sum of Parts


Balls of Titanium (to Reed from the infamous Tim Samaras)


Canon System in Dream Mode

Canon system is mounted outside - white tubes are located on back passenger side.

Tim Samaras

ABSTRACTING THE D-2 ::

STORM CHASERS :: GIZMOS & GADGETRY

Canon in The Dominator

Excitement, pressure, emotions, expectations...all caught up in firing the probe from the canon.

(White tube is the canon inside of Dominator 2)

Door Frame Section I

Door Frame Section II

The Electricity of the Mind Flows Most Beautifully (Inside the D-2)

Simple Importance

STORM CHASERS, Reed Timmer and Crew (http://www.tornadovideos.net ) and their amazing new in-progress chase vehicle, D-2, came here to my town of Tupelo to be outfitted with high-tech gadgetry and gizmos.

My third visit to the Renasant Center for Ideas and Hyperion was to see what was going on with this enormous dream of a chase vehicle.

I think I stopped breathing when I walked up to it...stood there in awe...walked slowly with great excitement around it and said, " OH ... My...God..."

The shear mass of the D-2 is mind boggling! And I certainly cannot imagine seeing it coming down the road! It is truly a jaw-dropping, breath-taking work of imagination and innovative technology on wheels - and huge ones at that!