Photography
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Where Fire Meets Sky: 3 of My Landscapes Join the Christmas Art Show at Davenport in Jacksonville, Texas
December in East Texas doesn’t just bring cooler mornings — it brings that kind of hometown sparkle that settles between the pines and turns every gathering into something warm and familiar. 2025, that sparkle found its way into my photography,… Continue reading
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The Secret Kingdom Beneath My Feet
Sometimes nature saves its best surprises for the places most people never look: the shaded corners beneath oak leaves, the soft ground after a rain, the hush of grass that hides an entire world just an inch below the surface.… Continue reading
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Red: The Color That Refuses to Sit Quietly
Red has never been the shy sort. It rushes in like a heartbeat one suddenly notices, blooming, blazing, flickering, claiming every corner it touches with a kind of delighted boldness. In this photos, red becomes the thread stitching together celebration,… Continue reading
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The Pink That Refuses to Whisper
Pink has a way of barging into the room long before I have realized it’s arrived. It doesn’t tiptoe, it doesn’t mumble. It glows, thrums, and hums like its own soft-edged anthem, and in these photos, it is a world… Continue reading
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A Gift Wrapped in Time, Thought, and a Little Bit of Magic
For my birthday I received a gift from Tootsie and Pappy that felt less like an object and more like a blessing for the road ahead — a photographer’s keepsake, tucked into layers of small, meaningful details. The moment I… Continue reading
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Fall Colors in East Texas: A 2025 Love Letter to the Season
East Texas isn’t always known for its fall colors but when it comes it is usually the quiet kind. The kind that doesn’t burst in with a full brass band of color like the Ozarks or New England, but instead… Continue reading
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Celestial Shadows: A Dialogue Between Earth and Sky
In a world where everything spins too fast, Celestial Shadows invites you to pause – and to orbit for awhile in wonder. This photo is a conversation between earthbound souls and the eternal sky. There are moments when art doesn’t… Continue reading
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Electric Nature Against Weathered Canvas
Have you ever thought about a place that is actually poetic? Like a forgotten corner of a yard where you used to count to 10 when playing hide and seek as a child – a place where metal may meet… Continue reading
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A Dance of Light and Smoke – Painting the Sky
There’s something truly magical about the night sky – a vast, inky canvas just waiting for colors to come alive. Sometimes, we don’t have to wait for the sun to rise or the stars to twinkle. We can become the… Continue reading
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Whispers of Nature: Lessons from a Thistle’s Journey
These photos I took recently – they are from this little adventure where I found these thistle plants going through their whole life cycle right before my eyes. I mean, just look at them! It’s like a story unfolding in… Continue reading
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