Seeing 2012 (#100)

For your consideration:  the year, like all others before it have done, is coming rapidly to its close. 

It's been quite a wild ride, this particular circuit of the Sun, my Fifty-Second.  Not the best of the bunch; far too much turbulence and uncertainty for my taste (much of which still looms).  Something of a surreal aberration, in numerus.  Even so, of course there was also an ample bounty of loving conviviality and sweet adventures, revelations and expanded horizons.  

Not the least of my personal highlights was the two-month exhibit of 61 of my photographs at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., library, on the campus of San José State University;  it is rare to be allotted such an expansive amount of both space and time to publicly display one's art, and it was a great honor. I also enjoyed the sweet affirmation of having sold several of my prints throughout the year, with more commissions pending.

One can only speculate what the next year holds for fortune and folly.  Certain is this:  there will be many journeys, some following prescribed, predictable vectors and courses, others fraught with confusion, perhaps, with shifting and conflicting signals and enticements.  Such is the human condition. 

It will be especially interesting to see which way the wind really flows in the days to come.  I hope to not find myself tilting at too many windmills, being instead grounded in some degree of reality as the adventure continues to write itself.

Vane Vectors (San Juan Bautista), #0297-7D

© 2012 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details:  October 7, 2012; Canon 7D; f/10 @ 1/400 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 400;
 Tokina AT-X Pro 11-16mm f/2.8 DX @ 11mm

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