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Goosey Goosey Gander
Canada Geese are also called Branta Canadensis and they come in at least
six varieties. The ones that frequent the West DuPage River in DuPage County,
Illinois, like these, are usually the
variety "interior". And they do not migrate like other Branta. But, I have seen
"maxima" here too, which does. The geese in the LoneTree logo shot at the top
of this page are "interior".
Maxima is a truly enormous bird with a nearly six foot wing
span. I know because when I closely approached him one afternoon by the river, with his
characteristic big thick neck, he flew away
very
low in the opposite direction. He could hardly get off the ground! I got a picture of him the next day and this
shot is in my fine art Catalog of Birds.
Canadensis is one of my metaphors for Spirit which is the
aspect of God that soars and sees us all so well while we grasp and struggle.
God's universe runs by His rules which are governed by His law, which we can
know. But, like mysterious geese,
there may be hidden constants, like a river's undercurrents, that are Spirit incarnate.
But beyond the character this observable universe Spirit reaches to infinity as strata, levels
and layers of multiverses pile up in an approximation of God. Extrapolated
incomprehensibly beyond infinity, this Spirit is the human face of God's love between
Father and Son. "Interior" is the embodiment of this very Earth's love for us, even though
we curse the inconvenience she sometimes leaves behind on lawns and sidewalks.
We damn our own success at righting some of our own wrongs toward nature and God. We
thereby curse Son, Jesus Himself. But God, Spirit, loves us anyway while Father
holds us alone as Responsible.
Recent Media Non-Coverage
of
LoneTree Pictures
LoneTree needs media coverage. You can do us a favor by sending appropriate
copies of these Web pages to your local newspapers and TV/Radio stations. Send
us copies of whatever media coverage there is, if you get any. If they want, I will write
any additional copy they might desire and supply more pictures, of course.
Imaginary "for instances"
- LoneTree Goes All Out to Win Big, Your Hardcopy News,
Month/Day/Year
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Your TV News, Month/Day/Year
- LoneTree Pictures Supports the Van Leeuwenhoek Institute or Is It the
Other Way Around?,
Your Radio News, Month/Day/Year
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EXPRESS, YOUR BANK
Go to
any exemplar page and use the form there to specify a picture, its size, whether
it is to be framed and/or matted and note its price according to the guidelines given
there. Remember the picture's title or its number in either type of slideshow gallery
sequence (this site's own or FotoThing). Uh oh. you might have to be able to count.
Also give a brief
description of the picture if you can, just to make sure, using the feedback
page. Sorry this cumbersome procedure will be changed. Then use your credit
card with PayPal.
Be sure to use the same name on this
site's forms as you will use with
PayPal. We shall install a shopping cart ASAP.
For a limited time only, you may
select a second picture of the same size, et cetera, for no additional charge
except for a slightly increased shipping fee. We make no profit on shipping.
The slideshow galleries include
FotoThing and an in-house slideshow for each of four categories as seen on the
exemplar pages under the Products or Premiums links. There are, perhaps, a dozen dozen
pictures on this site.
But you can ask for hundreds more in each of over a
eight
more categories. LoneTree can mail or email pages and pages of contact prints,
which are like thumbnail pictures, in about any nature, landscape or wildlife
category you can think of including Cityscapes, Architecture, Old houses &
Barns, Antennae/Grain Elevators/Power Towers & Substations, and
Planes/Trains/Automobiles as these are "works of Man" as a part of Nature.
LoneTree's prints are always in limited editions (25 or
less) regardless of format (size and other parameters). They are always signed
by me (or any other artist that we may sponsor) and dated with the edition limit
stated in order to make this a true investment for you. LoneTree's Pictures will
increase in value by 300% in less than 5 years.
Daffobug
Insects are not icky, they are just different. This one seems
downright lovable. Obviously, he is harmless with his long proboscis, he is more
like a butterfly. He seems to be right at home and I'll bet that he is, too.
Clane Gessel Photography
Award-winning Seattle wedding photography. As
seen in Seattle Bride magazine and inside
the Space Needle.
When exploring such links as the one above,
it may be better to use your back arrow <--- button
in order to return here
or else you may accidentally
close out of the LoneTree site.
River Dawn
Beyond the trees lies the West Branch of the DuPage River
in DuPage County, Illinois. The scene is just behind the Old Church of
the Resurrection on Gary's Mill Road and Illinois Route 59 in West
Chicago. I was the guy who did the marquee out in front of the building and
I served as church secretary and building and grounds supervisor. Many a time I
would sleep overnight in the parish house to rise for the dawn and a new
day like this.
I got a lot of good pictures this way. Sometimes the dawn is
pretty spectacular there near Chicago!
I want to do a bigger marquee or a billboard size picture for
display on Interstate 294 in Chicago. It will be a sublime fine art digital
photograph depicting, say, anything else but the Chicago skyline. I also want to return to the
Cascades and take some shots of Colchuk Peak, where my cousin Allan was killed in
a rock climbing accident on the summer solstice in 1997. From below the mountain
and across the glacial lake just over the ridge leading from the hiking trail,
is a wonderful view of "The Rock". At sunset or sunrise it could rival my idol, Ansel Adams' famous
incredible
shot of El Capitan.
Gary Marries Lesley
Gary Kent has Married Lesley Kay Turner after an engagement of over three
years. The nuptials occurred at the Resurrection Anglican Church on
Roosevelt Road (Illinois Route 38) in West Chicago, Illinois.
Resurrection has become independent of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A
(ECUSA) as have several dioceses and many other church congregations and individuals who
have joined the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), which is just
getting started. The Anglicans have severed ties with the Episcopals because
ECUSA has stubbornly persisted in ordaining gay bishops, gay priests and blessing
gay marriages without consultation or approval from the Worldwide Anglican
Communion.
ECUSA has already been read out of The Communion and as soon as
ACNA
is fully organized, many more dioceses and parishes with join. It will then
become THE Anglican Church in America, gaining the title of a full fledged
Province in the church. Then ECUSA will become known as "The Gay Church".
which
is fine. Hooray.
Gary and Lesley Get Hitched
Gak's FOTOTHING
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