Photo Philanthropy ...

... using your cameraphone to better the world.

“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things.

In physical terms, I move through them;

yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

~ John Fowles

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldy cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All Along the Watchtower ...

"There must be some kind of way out of here said the joker to the thief

There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief."

~ Bob Dylan

"Art-making has an alchemical effect on the imagination. It awakens the senses and sharpens insights, teaching us to think in symbols, metaphors, and to de-code complexity, so we can perceive the world in new ways."

~ Linda Naiman

Fly like a Eagle ...

"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart – pursue those."

~ Michael Molan

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul..”

~W. Somerset Maugham

"My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality."

~ Daniel R. Lynch

Light Scapes ...

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,

for beauty is God's handwriting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes."

~ Marcel Proust

By Joel Schat

"In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not only a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded."

Wynn Bullock

"The practice of contemplative photography is one of being present to life as it is, to capturing the essence of the world around us, and finding that it is more rich, complex, and wondrous than we ever imagined."

~ Kim Manley Ort

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

~John Updike

"Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul... and you answer it."

~ Terri Gillemets

Deep See ...

"In the act of deeply seeing, we transcend the boundaries between the self and the otherness of the world, momentarily merging with the thing seen."

~ Alex Grey

Rio Grande, Socorro, New Mexico

Invisible Walls

"Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Blown Away ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"One should not only photograph things for what they are

but for what else they are."

~ Minor White

New Light ...

Socorro, New Mexico.

“Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order,

which it expresses and in some sense explains.”

~ Thomas Merton