Before first light of 2023 Black Friday morning I left the chaos to chase my goal of improving landscape photos, beginning with the golden hour light reflected on Pinnacle Mountain. However, when I reached Lake Maumelle at William Kirsch Preserve at North Ranch Woods in Little Rock a mystic fog floated on the lake softening the cypress and other more colorful autumn trees behind them.

This tree is my release to be individually different me within the bigger picture of collective we both valuable not because anything I have done but because of Who created me.

Photography is an art full of plans, processes, and pivots of unknown environmental or built events.