Destiny

One Way Runway
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

“Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. 

I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.”
Paulo Coelho

Composition by:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

April, 2016

Permanent Resident

The Remains
Scott Norris

“The resting place of the mind is the heart.
The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells
and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude.
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside
the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

Solitary Confinement

You Can Call Me Al
A.D. Wheeler

“That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle.

Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between

-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”

― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

Featured Image:

You Can Call Me Al

(Al Capone’s jail cell)

A.D. Wheeler

November, 2015 

Storytelling

No Escape II
Scott Norris

 “People have forgotten how to tell a story.

Stories don’t have a middle or and end anymore.

They usually have a beginning that

Never stops beginning”

- Steven Spielberg

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

The Rock

A Hard Old Man
Woody Huffines

“Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly 

doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone,
that you would give everybody a fair deal.
Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing.
If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.”

― Omar Nelson Bradley

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

Perception

Glass Houses
Eric Stoliker

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive,
create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal
themselves, their perceptions and emotions,
and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”

― Ansel Adams

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

Poetry In Motion

Trainspotting
Inez Van de Ven

“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom,
and give everything for Passion, loving everything
that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl
and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion
should be her desire to make her life into poetry,
surrendering everything she has to create a life
as beautiful as the dreams that dance in her imagination.”

― Roman Payne

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

Moonshine

Moonshine
Connie Lowell

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast,
knowing us in our light and dark moments,
changing forever just as we do.
Every day it’s a different version of itself.
Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light.
The moon understands what it means to be human.”

― Tahereh Mafi

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015

The Watchman

Eyes
Terry Parker

“The Universe not only sends special people into our lives,
but sometimes it even sends them back again
if we forget to take notes the first time!”

- Eileen Elias Freeman

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November,  2015

The Visitor

Graveyard with Fog
Janet Politte

“Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams...
countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'…
countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung...
I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest,
it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung,
a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed.”

― Steve Maraboli

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

October, 2015

Hope Floats

Hope Floats
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it,

but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a

light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

― Laini Taylor

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

October, 2015

Private Party

Private Party
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Kurt Cobain

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

October, 2015

I Miss You Most of All

I Miss You Most of All
Scott Norris

"The falling leaves drift by my window

The falling leaves of red and gold

I see your lips, the summer kisses

The sunburned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all, my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all, my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall

I miss you most of all, my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall"

- Autumn Leaves, performed by Eva Cassidy

Composition By:

Scott Norris

October, 2015

Time

Time Revisited
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

“An answer gone unanswered
will be answered in a parallel universe.
Existence is classified in unrecorded dimensions.”

― Vishwanath S. J.

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

September, 2015

She Smiles

She Smiles
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

These are but trifles, to be sure;

but scattered along life's pathway,

the good they do is inconceivable.”

- Joseph Addison

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

September, 2015

A Fleeting Moment

A Fleeting Moment
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

“Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep.
The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth
comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto.
Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours
in the first place is what causes us to miss out
on the beauty of the miracle that is the now.
All of this is yours, yet none of it is.
How could it be? Look around you.
Everything is fleeting.”
― Rachel Brathen

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

September, 2015

The Piper & The Maiden

Piper & Maiden
Kevin Wenning

“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery,
in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle
where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

― Nicholas Sparks

Composition By:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon

September, 2015

Light Room

The Studio Portrait
Timothy Tichy

The creative act lasts but a brief moment,
a lightning instant of give-and-take,
just long enough for you to level the camera
and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

August, 2015

Sunrise Over Kansas

Untitled
Altheia McCallum

“This morning a splendid dawn passed over our house on its way to Kansas.
This morning Kansas rolled out of its sleep into a sunlight grandly announced,
proclaimed throughout heaven - one more of the very finite number
of days that this old prairie has been called Kansas, or Iowa.
But it has all been one day, that first day.
Light is constant, we just turn over in it.
So every day is in fact the selfsame evening and morning.”
- Marilynne Robinson

Featured Artist:

Altheia McCallum

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

August, 2015

A Distant Sunrise

Quadracci Pavilion Sunrise 

Scott Norris

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless
he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Andre Gide

Featured Artist:

Scott Norris

The graceful Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum

at sunrise on a stormy mid-summer morning.

The Quadracci Pavilion is a sculptural, postmodern addition

to the museum completed in 2001, designed by

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

Image copyright Scott Norris Photography 2015

www.scottnorrisphotography.com

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon