By Ted Grussing
… pathways into the unknown … pathways to forever … all alone on a tiny planet that seems so vast to us. There are scenes which so emphasize the beauty and vastness of space time that you just keep coming back to them … I could spend forever in the moment when and where I took this shot and be drawn to explore whatever lies beyond … or perhaps just remain here and be in awe and wonder. Looking out over the Colorado Plateau with A-1 crater in left center foreground, Kendrick Peak on left and the San Francisco Peaks on the right … dozens of other volcanic cones can also be seen … this is part of the San Francisco Volcanic Field with more than 600 volcanoes.
For more than four billion years earth has been evolving, and sometime within the first one hundred million years after the solar system coalesced, earth was struck by a massive astronomical body about the size of Mars in what is now considered by scientists as a very violent collision which may have vaporized both the earth and the impactor body … read more at: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12879766/moon-planetary-collision-theory-earth-impact . We live on an amazing planet and though of very diminutive size, we are even more so … a huge planetary body to us and largely unknown. Continually changing as earth continues its course around the sun and our solar system around the Milky Way, the galaxy our star system calls home along with hundreds of billions of other star systems.
Have a beautiful day … stretch your mind and be open to all that is. Smile too … we are here.
Cheers
Ted
So each one to his wish, and as for me,
I sit tonight and wait
To find the answers to my soul in me,
And in the beauty of the sky and sea.
— Max Ehrmann
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The easiest way to reach Mr. Grussing is by email: ted@tedgrussing.com
In addition to sales of photographs already taken Ted does special shoots for patrons on request and also does air-to-air photography for those who want photographs of their airplanes in flight. All special photographic sessions are billed on an hourly basis.
Ted also does one-on-one workshops for those interested in learning the techniques he uses. By special arrangement Ted will do one-on-one aerial photography workshops which will include actual photo sessions in the air.
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