The Queen of Morning offers a gracious gift whenever she layers a meadow with the mist we call fog. On the morning I made part one of this picture (top) she had spread her grayest robes across a golf course.

   Sunrise transformed playing field into fairyland. Her spotlight anointed the trees with mystery & carpeted the dew-strewn grass with jewels. 

   More than 30,000 photographs & films flood my computer. Each one vies for a level  of attention impossible to give.

   Artists seek to create that which intrigues & transforms. Their truth may or may not connect with ours.

    Across sixty years I have come to follow Ansel Adams declaration: "I don't take photographs. I make them." 

   Photographs & paintings tell Beauty's story differently, one more "real" than the other. Since neither is actually the "thing" both are abstractions.

   Over the five years since I made the first image I wondered what else hid in the mist. Modern techniques enabled creating a new interpretation from the same picture. The first version offers "easy beauty." I reached into the same picture to express the identical scene in a different way (note the foreground tree in both.)

 Consistent with the artist's code, how this second picture was made is not nearly as important as how you experience it. 

   X-rays reveal illness hidden beneath our skin. Healing's secrets are invisible to both eyes & machines. For they are hidden in the folds of God's robe. 

-Erie Chapman

Layout image: "Two Views of Fog" by erie 2014 & 2019