Happy World Wetlands Day
Groundhog Day tends to hog the spotlight, but Feb. 2 is also World Wetlands Day. In honor of this overshadowed holiday, here’s a photographic tribute to the planet’s marshes, swamps and bogs — and their animal inhabitants.
Happy World Wetlands Day
Groundhog Day tends to hog the spotlight, but Feb. 2 is also World Wetlands Day. In honor of this overshadowed holiday, here’s a photographic tribute to the planet’s marshes, swamps and bogs — and their animal inhabitants.
— Ansel Adams
Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people’s hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.
Langya.
Photo by Mullen Photography.
Click the link to see the incredible light show!
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
“Castle in the Park” at Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine. (photo: David LaCasse)
The holidays are over and there’s no getting around the fact that it’s January and bitter cold in the Upper Midwest. The days, while inching longer into light, are still short. Now is the time of deep winter, when a touch of light goes a long way.
Last week, as I caught a glimpse of holiday lights being dismantled from an indoor public tree display, I thought, “Already? It’s not even New Year’s. Now’s the time when we need the light the most.”
The good people of Portland, Maine understand this need in their watery bones. From Thanksgiving through Valentine’s Day, the city is bedecked in glorious light sculptures designed by local artist Pandora LaCasse. For over a decade, Ms. LaCasse has been transforming public parks and buildings into canvases for her light art.

Ansel Adams, Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern CA, 1960
“To the vast majority of people
a photograph is an
image of something within
their direct experience:
a more-or-less factual reality.
It is difficult for them
to realize that the
photograph can be the source
of experience, as well as the
reflection of spiritual awareness
of the world and of self.”
— Ansel Adams, Photographer (1902 - 1984)
(Source: mythologyofblue)
The photos on this blog are now available to be purchased as prints. When the slideshow comes to a photo you like, click it and it will take you to the page where you can customize your print, frame and mat it, or even buy it as a stretched canvas.

I’ve decided to use
and when you click this image it will take you to my page there. The photos are organized in galleries. There are 25 available for the time being. All have been featured here, but not all posted are available for purchase. If there’s one you see here that’s not in the store, let me know. And in the future, the store may have a few that I don’t post here.
Thank you for following my journey through the lens which is part of my spiritual exploration, and for your support in these times when the Earth needs our sharp focus.