With this rain, this time of year is the mist season! I love it. Timelapses of mist almost always pay off. Drone work in mist is amazing. And it invited a poem out of me too! So there you have it all!
Another blast from the past. Holds up nicely. Did it with a monopod so I could get so close. The variations in the sound are simply what happened and what the camera’s caught and it works great. The real deal. Quite simple. Interesting realism. And beautiful say I. Ashland creek, Lithia park, southern Oregon at it’s best.
Film by Greeley Wells
Edited by Jason Engel
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Hello my dear friends and fellow gatherers! This is a thank you for the wonderful time we all created together. For the amazing memories we created, the splendid time we had and a once in a lifetime experience of a total eclipse!
And welcome to everyone else who comes upon this video, enjoy!
Starry Skies Fall 2017 Applegater Newspaper Article reprinted here for your enjoyment.
I had an interesting insight this morning in the shower. Rubbing away at my eyebrows with the washcloth, I remembered there is one particular creature that lives in human eyebrows, called a follicle mite. I thought, what are they doing now? Probably holding on for dear life as I scrub away at their home! And what do they do at night when I’m sleeping and they’re free to walk about easily? It suddenly occurred to me: I am a landscape! I am home to that follicle mite. And the follicle mites aren’t alone—there are more creatures on the surface of our skin than skin cells themselves! And in our gut and throughout our bodies we host other minute creatures, a myriad of life forms. Most of them are doing wonderful things, like digesting our food for us. We are at one with them. As we walk through our own earthly landscape, they all come along with us, walking around in and on us! And frankly, we humans also walk around like little mites on this planet, doing some good things and some not-so-good things. Fundamentally, we are all simultaneously creatures and landscapes.
We’re all neighbors and fellow creatures: gigantic, large, small or infinitesimal…it just depends on your perspective. I’ve seen one of those electron microscope photos of the small creatures living on our skin; it’s hard to believe, but they have even tinier creatures crawling on them!
Perhaps we could look at our solar system—and maybe the whole cosmos—in a similar way. This insight made my morning, and I pass it on to you to think about.
Greeley Wells
In this hot season, even with fires in the west and many other places, lets remember snow is around the corner. Here’s a break and reminder of another season.
Film by Greeley Wells
Edited by Jason Engel
A written & spoken poem by Greeley
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Bring stillness into your life and be more than you imagine.
A poem written and read by Greeley
Film by Greeley Wells
Edited by Jason Engel
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We found this great interactive way to move along the whole moon’s shadow path with a full color satellite image of the land below. You’ll love it!
Follow the shadow of the moon as it completely blocks out the sun on Aug. 21, moving along a 3,000-mile path from Oregon’s Pacific coast to the eastern shore of South Carolina.
JUST CLICK HERE or on the image below and have the trip at your speed:
