RON HENGGELER |
July 20, 2021
The devastating effects of the Glass Wildfire from 2020,
and, the clean-up and eventual restoration of the burned areas.
The Glass Fire that began on September 27, 2020, was a wildfire in Northern California that burned for 23 days and destroyed nearly 68,000 acres.
I've recently been photographing in the burned zone above St. Helena in Napa Valley.
Many of my photos show the difficult work that is currently underway, clearing the forest of the trees that did not survive the fire.
What’s fire. You can tell me about oxidation, but that doesn’t tell me a thing.Joseph Campbell |
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
The reverse side also has a reverse side.Japanese Proverb |
Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds.Barnett Newman |
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.Marcus Aurelius |
Things are not as we see them but how we remember them.Valle Inclan |
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Every beauty which is seen by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all come.Michelangelo |
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.E. O. Wilson |
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.Man Ray |
There ain’t no answer.
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If you understand, things are just as they are.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us! O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!Leonardo Da Vinci |
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.Joseph Campbell |
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.Robert Breault |
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In the beginning of the world, Coyote was more foolish than he is now.Yaqui Legend |
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A quiet conscience makes one strong.Anne Frank |
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The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.Gautama the Buddha |
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When you set yourself free from life and death, you should know your ultimate destination. So when the four elements separate, where will you go?Tosotsu Etsu |
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If we are here for any purpose at all, (except for collating texts, running rivers and learning the stars), I suspect it is to entertain the rest of nature. We are a gang of sexy, primate clowns.Gary Snyder |
Mythology breaks the whole of life into a vast, horrendous Divine Comedy.Joseph Campbell |
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This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.Meher Baba |
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It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.Dr. Seuss |
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We are here and it is now.
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.Hermann Hesse |
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln |
The future is always beginning now.Mark Strand |
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The world is ruled by letting things take their course.Lao Tzu |
Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, one may well burst out in laughter.Long Chen Pa |
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.Charles R. Swindoll |
Theater takes place all the time, wherever one is, and art simply facilitates persuading one that this is the case.John Cage |
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Do what you will, this Life’s a Fiction and is filled with Contradiction.William Blake |
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If untold Buddha-lands are reduced to atoms,
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The chance of producing a human being through random chance would be like a hurricane blowing through a junk yard and creating a 747 airplane.E.O. Wilson |
The word ‘art’ interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I’ve heard, it signifies ‘making’.Marcel Duchamp |
My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.John Cage |
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci |
May God us keep
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The world of dew is only a world of dew
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I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.Jacques-Henri Lartigue |
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.Dalai Lama |
The pictures are there, and you just take them.Robert Capa |
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.Ansel Adams |
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.John Wooden |
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau |
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.Aaron Rose |
Those who know don’t talk.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.Dorothea Lange |
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To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.Oscar Wilde |
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.Man Ray |
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Emily Dickinson |
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.Paul Brunton |
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.Joseph Campbell |
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.George Bernard Shaw |
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.Ansel Adams |
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha |
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For the present, the comedy of existence has yet “become conscious” of itself.Friedrich Nietzsche |
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.Albert Einstein |
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.David Alan Harvy |
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Zen is the madman yelling: If you want to tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars.Jack Kerouac |
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.Ansel Adams |
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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.Walt Whitman |
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Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.Alvin Langdon Coburn |
The old gods are dead or dying and people everywhere are searching, asking: What is the new mythology to be, the mythology of this unified earth as one harmonious being?Joseph Campbell |
All the atoms in the air and in the desert, Let it be known, are like madmen. Each atom, happy or miserable, is in love with the Sun, of which we can say nothing.Rumi |
What is past is prologue.William Shakespeare |
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.Buddha |
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