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Red roan stallion-Blaze


The red roan stallion, Blaze, runs freely in the badlands

This morning I am feeling stressed out and most of my stress can be related to promoting a business where creative expression is the product.  Now creative expression is a very personal and diverse element, so everyone sees it differently.  Is it stressful to have a different point of view?  Being an artist (photography?)  I often wrestle with a perspective that is unattainable, the light is not right, the hill is unclimbable, or the background is not suitable.  If I were a painter, I could have more control over these elements of my images.  So the photographic challenge lies in processing the image so the bad elements are minimized and improving the composition to match what I felt when I snapped the image.  This whole image of a wild stallion was not exactly what I felt, so after cropping to the face only and blurring the background, lightening the wild mane blowing in the wind, now I feel that it exhibits the wildness that I felt when I captured his image.  I feel that artistry is producing a 2 dimensional image that represents a feeling and with that definition, photography is also art.    

 

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Badlands scoria


The badlands of North Dakota are dotted with outcroppings of red stone that is locally called scoria.  Scoria point is a very large deposit in the south unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.  Layers of clay adjacent to coal layers are potential for a burning coal vein.  When a coal layer is ignited, it bakes the clay into a flower pot type rock that clinks when it is dropped, hence another nickname for the red rock, clinker. When the sun sets, the orange light reflecting off Scoria point seems as tho the red rock glows from within.  Well my dog is barking at me, need to run
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