Tao of Photography
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Geometrodynamics

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"The universe does not exist “out there,” independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be hap...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Woods are Alive

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"Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Wood...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Secret Order

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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." -  C. G. Jung  (1875-1961)
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Silence Within

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"The longest journey is the journey inward. ... To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sac...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

A Pattern or Dance

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"Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers: you are reduced to hearing...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

Imagination Itself

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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridi...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Terra Mobilis

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"Through the spectacles of geology, terra firms becomes terra mobilis, and we are forced to reconsider our beliefs of what is solid and...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Light is a Thick Yellow Vitamin

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"In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

The World as a Neural Network

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"If the entire universe is a neural network, then something like natural selection might be happening on all scales from cosmological (...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Time and Space

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"Because of the hazy, nondefinite character of quantum physics (called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle), at the dimensions of the ...
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Andy Ilachinski
Virginia, United States
I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in the modeling of complex adaptive systems (with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics). However, both by temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far longer than my Ph.D. gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics. Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever since. My creative process is very simple. I take pictures of what calms my soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul and the world. Not Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a "Sudden Stillness." My favorite quote: "That which you are seeking is doing the seeking." (St. Francis of Assissi)
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