"Verona Daydream"

Artwork is from Etsy shop: aaronthompsonphoto.

Travel takes not just the body but the mind to other places outside of it's daily routine and, at times, can give an other-worldliness, dream-like quality to the senses. No more so than in those minutes of awakening when the mind becomes aware of the sights and sounds that are reminding it that the physical presence is in a place that is new and unique.

A photograph can convey that sense of sleepy wonder that comes in those early minutes of a travel day when your eyes open to a darkened room giving just the smallest hint that the day ahead is going to be different than all the others that have come before it. And as the eyes focus to the diffused view filtering through curtains, the excitement begins to jolt the body out in to a new adventure.

EFAP Team Member Name: Pat Migliore

Team Member Shop: RoselightStudio

"Lupus"

Artwork is from Etsy shop: Wildnisphotography.

The academic in me might say "the profundity of wild nature justifies a latinate nomenclature"...! Lupus, as you may know, means "wolf" in Latin. Wild nature, you might agree, lives profoundly as the mother of us all.

And so the photographer attempts to share more than decoration with, perhaps, an implied message. The wolf symbolizes the planet's wildness that now struggles to survive even as a fragmented remnant. The essence of nature's artful creations is often found in the eyes. And in this image, the fierce open mouth, the blurred motion, the frantic partial composition, and the natural color of the coat, define this beast, a work of natural art.


EFAP Team Member Name: Murray Bolesta
Team Member Shop: MurrayBolesta