BistiArt > Long Ago and Far Away…
Salvadore Dali was famous for creating surreal paintings, with sepulchural effects.
On another planetary world long ago, we found an ancient hoodoo, falling in disrepute.  The icy evening’s reflection from the large but distant moon merely says, “If Salvadore did it, why can’t I?”
BistiArt > Restin'...
A soft winter’s dusk is gracious host to a solitary bird, perched against a glowing sky.  The tree's graceful arch, from cold, icy water to sweep over faint, distant mountains, focuses your eye to a reed patch near the tree.  
The tree, reed patch, and distant mountains create a second image within Restin’.  The tree's graceful arch, distant mountain's subtle shape, and shoreline reeds are framed between the sky's soft glow and windblown water.  Faintly, perhaps subtly, thin saffron clouds seemed to reflect the far shore line with its golden accent of reeds.
Could our lone tenant not feel a sweet, deep peace in such enchanting light?

Restin’ received a 2nd - Place Tie in digital competition from Andrew Neighbour at ELCC, April 17, 2008!
BistiArt > Storm Across the Valley,
Clouds are rollin’ in…
John Denver’s immortal song rarely has a better billboard than this memorable shot of Slaughter Canyon near Moab.  May’s thunderstorm cuddles a distant rainbow seeming to leap straight up from the canyon’s right edge.
BistiArt > Peach Landing
I love inverse symmetry of this image.  Five sand hill cranes, eager to land, are a left-handed question mark.  
Sunset, deep peach in color, gives the cranes a gorgeous ambience.  In a few moments, they will land in ice-fringed waters of Bosque del Apache.  
Just like Tranquility, a long, peaceful night’s rest will prepare these birds for tomorrow’s search for one of life’s necessities – food.
BistiArt > Washer Woman Arch
If you’ve traveled to Mesa Arch on Island in the Sky, Canyonlands, you are familiar with Washer Woman.  She is often captured in a distant series of monuments above the far away Colorado River.
Yet, Washer Woman is a towering figure when seen from the White Rim Trail.  Late afternoon sunlight creates a slight haze while creating gray cloud textures which are offset by the shadowed layers of sand and shale bordering the Trail.
BistiArt > Primordial Bisti
“In the beginning, there was the Heavens and the Earth…”		Genesis 1:1
Can you imagine what Earth might have looked like some 4 billion years ago?
As we wandered the Bisti Badlands several years ago, light’s confluence seemed supercharged by a stormline about to devour the soft clay ground with driving rain.
Our interpretation of this image is almost surreal; the dark clouds are offset by bright blue, clear skies.  Red hills seem to leap from beneath the cloud’s dark, foreboding brow.  The sun’s setting glow turns the nearby hoodoos to gold.
BistiArt > Lavender Dawn
Dawn can be such a soft, wondrous time…
The softness of sunrise is tempered by a sand dune with its subtle, wind-sculpted curve.  As our eye sweeps nature’s gorgeous curve, we finally reach the back edge.  Now, you can see the glorious light of morning’s marvel. 
Having framed soft lavender colors, the eye then seeks detail in the foreground bushes.
Such beauty occurs in deserts around the world such as the Kalahari, Sahara, and White Sands … just get out there and capture it!
BistiArt > Watch It…
Wild horses, who have just eaten hay supplied  by an understanding supporter, allow our close up photography.  Here, the white stallion warily directs a young paint mare, herding her away from us.  He does not want her joining another nearby black stallion whose band came in to finish the hay.
I love their motion, sculptured under the backdrop of highlights glinting from mane and tail.
BistiArt > Chow...

While Mom stands watch, her rambunctious son starts downgrade in front of his aunt.  They are all seeking hay in the draw below.
But, the stallion and mare of _ _ _ are already there.  Will there be enough food left for this small herd?
Long Ago and Far Away…
Salvadore Dali was famous for creating surreal paintings, with sepulchural effects.
On another planetary world long ago, we found an ancient hoodoo, falling in disrepute. The icy evening’s reflection from the large but distant moon merely says, “If Salvadore did it, why can’t I?”
BistiArt > Long Ago and Far Away…
Salvadore Dali was famous for creating surreal paintings, with sepulchural effects.
On another planetary world long ago, we found an ancient hoodoo, falling in disrepute.  The icy evening’s reflection from the large but distant moon merely says, “If Salvadore did it, why can’t I?”
Long Ago and Far Away…
Salvadore Dali was famous for creating surreal paintings, with sepulchural effects.
On another planetary world long ago, we found an ancient hoodoo, falling in disrepute. The icy evening’s reflection from the large but distant moon merely says, “If Salvadore did it, why can’t I?”
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