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A macro ice photographer who captures freezing moments of a mountain stream and a creative arts therapist who, before C-19, used music to engage chronically ill children in five hospitals around NYC. Air, Soil, and WATER are our most essential resources!

Covers of the books mentioned in this post, left to right - Fen, Bog & Swamp, Unbottled, The Ripple Effect
A Catskill mountain stream with slight openings in the ice revealing the moving stream underneath which burbles with gusto as it makes it way down the mountain slope under two feet of snow.
The cover of "Spirals in the Caribbean" by Sophie Maríñez, with the sub-title " Representing violence and connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic". In the background are ocean plants.
A young Orangutan sitting on a moss and fern covered log, and holding a red flower
Chilled water running over and through clumps of ice which looks like rock candy.
As 3” of water expands into clear ice, a vacuum is created, revealing the air imbedded in sand and rock pores.
Blows Against the Empire is a concept album by Paul Kantner, released in 1970 under the name Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship. The cover depicts a person walking through a magical island in the universe.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden walking with Michelle and Jill Behind them
two photos of ice on the NYC Big Screen Plaza on W. 29th @6th Ave. One, called "Rock Candy Fountain" shows rivulets of water running down melting clusters of ice. The other Named "Air Anima" is an icicle with imbedded air pockets and snow crystals seeming to give it a face in the middle.
Moss and winter greenery joined by an ice stalagmite which augmented the orange sporophytes.
A leaf bottomed pool of frozen water. Bubbles from the decomposing leaves gather on the pools’ surface to create an image of a lopsided creature who seems wistful. __Macro photograph of ice found while winter hiking with an DSLR and tripod in the Catskill Mtns, NY.
Wood, rock, and mountain stream water, with some help from twigs and leaves underneath, give color to patterns that have developed as ice thickens on the bank. To me it looks like the head of a man wearing a cap. He is walking home after a long day at work. Macro photograph of ice found while winter hiking with an DSLR and tripod in the Catskill Mtns, NY.
Foliose lichen fruiting body encased in ice. Is it extra orange from the insulating frozen moisture? Notice the same bud at the bottom where it looks dried out and frozen. Macro photograph of ice found while winter hiking with an DSLR and tripod in the Catskill Mtns, NY.
Macro photograph of ice found while winter hiking with an DSLR and tripod in the Catskill Mtns, NY. The air pockets in this icicle gain character with some snow dusting. Large ice crystals absorb long wavelengths of light and reflect short-waved blue light.
A paper boat floating on dappled water with the words "arthouse.nyc presents - FLOW - fine and digital art and photography" above it. The outside edges lists the artists and the bottom gives the address and exhibit times.
Marchers chanting "Bring Them Back" which morphed into "Bring them Home" on Madison Ave in NYC
A layer of ice that reveals the rock and moss patterns behind the ice and the patterns within, while also reflecting the blue sky and dark tree branches above it. These patterns and colors combine and intersect to form imagery befitting the imagination.
A closeup of an icicle where trapped air reflects light as brightness and pure frozen water is darkly translucent. The resultant swirly mixture of tones creates imagery which the mind translates into known caricatures. Foremost in my view is a penguin with a raised bill and furry front being snuggled against by a duck with a lowered bill. One spot of color on the right side shows a browned pine needle on the ice’s surface.