Lapis Lazuli Baby Onesie

Lapis Lazuli

We walked like loosed snakes
in a tin can tethered by our ears
to the guide leading with her
antenna topped in an orange bow
bobbing up and down many stairs of the
Museo Vaticani into the Chapel
then out down a hallway of of maps
past glorious window views of the garden clipped its depths, distances, purposes unknown.

Museo Vaticani is a palace of
unmovable feet in stone
incontinent muffled voices
living bodies injected vertically
into an ever moving flow
constant, erratic, unremitting
past tens of thousands
of stones, and coins, and books
and masks, and cloth, and weapons
and painting, and sculpture, and fragments
and dreams, and phantasms
of great beauty and horror
beyond comprehension
surely beyond remembering.

As if by a laser pointer
maybe a dozen objects
were illuminated by her voice red light
through our inevitable path
across thousands of...

My subjects are both natural and architectural. I am interested in textures and shapes and how light and shadow play on those objects often creating new ones. I use a Nikon D-800, and an iPhone 10s Max. I make every effort to compose in the camera and thus I crop infrequently. I use Lightroom, Photoshop & NIK to work with highlights & shadows which often brings out the elements in a photograph for which I have primary interest. I have no hesitation using any other tool if the results make the photograph work. My preference is to do nothing to a photograph presenting it as it was taken. My web site is named light & shadows because both light and shadows are the visual elements that hold the most fascination for me. If time and space...