I took the image of the daisy at Pike Nursery and disappeared the background in Photoshop just by asking it to “select subject,” and copy/pasted it to a black background. Then I asked Generative Fill in Photoshop to give me a “Swallowtail Butterfly” in the space I had drawn on the background, selected the oneContinue reading “October 02, 2025”
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October, 2025
A woman on a black Horse has been my metaphor for my intuition guiding, directing, me through my life, from where I am here, now to what is called for and what is calling me to do in each situation as it arises. I know it when I see it, sense it, the way IContinue reading “October, 2025”
September 29, 2025
I hired Tom Phillips, the Zen Master of Navajo Photography Guides in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. My wife and I were crowded into the only seat of Tom’s pickup driving through the desert on the way to the first stop on Tom’s list of “Shooting Locations,” when we met a Navajo woman on aContinue reading “September 29, 2025”
February 14, 2025
We carry around with us the assumption of permanence, as though things will be what they are foreverunchanged.It comforts us, steadies us, reassures usto be able to assume the ongoingness of what appears to be reliably there.The Linville River has flowed for thousands of years,and is probably safe for thousands more.And the fact that “weContinue reading “February 14, 2025”
December 03, 2024 – Book Excerpt 01
I will be using this space to post excerpts from my e-book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey,” available on Amazon as a Kindle book, and available for free on my WordPress site, “My Published Works.” This is a 2012 revision of my paperback published in 2002 with the title, “The Evolution of the IdeaContinue reading “December 03, 2024 – Book Excerpt 01”
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 