Beloved of Sky

The title comes from an Emily Carr painting ‘Scorned for Timber, Beloved of Sky’. What a powerful phrase, beloved of sky. Photograph from China Beach, Vancouver Island.

Spirit Lifters

Vertical Lines are sunflowers and tree trunks, looming up and out of the mist, aspiring to the sun. They attract us with feelings of strength, power and grandeur and lift our spirits up to the heavens.

Vertical lines of burnt timber. Bow Valley Parkway, near Banff, Alberta. The orange colours invite us to pause and consider, while the purple / grey of the background stimulates our imagination. What does it all mean?

Banded Vertical

Down

And, vertical lines can lead us down. The Hoodoos, near Drumheller, Alberta.

Miasma

Vertical lines leading us in and up. The duckweed adds a texture to this image and notice how the reflected lines are a different angle than the shadow lines.

Twins

Horizontal lines calm us with feelings of stability, balance and control. They give us a place to stand, but also a place from which we can step forward. - Sandcut Beach,Vancouver Island.

The Flat and Endless Prairie

Converging lines create a perspective of distance. - Near Vulcan, Alberta.

Oblique Lines

Oblique lines provide action and direction. They carry us through an image. Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

Journey

The clouds form one set of oblique lines and the mountain ridges form another. Horseshoe Bay, Vancouver, B.C.

Leading Lines

There is perpetual mist at the south end of French Beach. The strong diagonal line in this photograph leads us on a stroll along the beach, half sand and half rocks, towards …something, a stump or a structure half hidden in the mist. As we get closer we can see that it’s a drift log lean-to. Is someone sleeping there? Are we intruding on young lovers in the mist? The diagonal line pulls us along, into the mystery.

Curved Lines

Speak to us with the sensuality of the goddess. They move us with a sensuality that other lines cannot. - Snowbank, Sherwood Park, Alberta.

Sensuality

The curved line of a spider's web adds a sensuality to this photograph.

Nurture

A woman tends her vines, near Alba, Italy.

Curved Lines

Vineyards near Alba, in Italy.

Flattery

The S curve winds us through an image, allowing us to explore. Cape Flattery, Washington State.

Mountain Mystery

The S-curve is a mountain highway or a stone pathway through a Zen garden. It provides us with permission to wander and take all the time we need on our quest. - Highwood Pass, Alberta.

Simplicity

Low winter light creates and S curve shadow on the snow. - Wabamun Lake, Alberta.

Prairie Light

Reversed S curves lead us up to the hay bales on the horizon, adding texture to the foreground in this photograph.

The Cowboy Trail

This image was created near Black Diamond, Alberta, which is located on the Cowboy Trail. The soft curved lines of the horse's back and haunches caught my eye and I waited until one of the horses turned his head a bit, so I could capture a bit of his face to provide context.

Blue Herons - Billings Spit, B.C.

Here, the S curve, the most elegant of all lines, is tempered and balanced by the horizontal lines in the foreground.

Innocence

The contrasting colours of the rock wall lead us, diagonally, from the lower left hand corner to this Big Horn Sheep lamb at Disaster Point, in Jasper National Park.