Cannon by Christopher Utano
I shot this image at a civil war reenactment. I waited for the right moment when the gun was fired to include the smoke in the scene. This gives the image a sense of action. I later converted to sepia to give it a feeling of realism. About 5…
The Weight of the Horizon
In the ancient texts, the act of carrying is often equated with the soul’s burden. We are taught that to move through the world is to accumulate, to gather the heavy stones of experience and tuck them into the folds of our garments. Yet,…
The Ember in the Horizon
There is a brief, breathless window when the day decides to surrender. It is not a quiet fading, but a final, defiant flare—a spilling of molten copper across the threshold of the dark. We spend our lives bracing for the night, clutching…