Michael Harris Photography

Feelings are much like waves , we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.  Jonatan Mårtensson  

  There is nothing like a good shower to start the morning off right There is nothing like being alive in the sun and moon light

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person.  Benjamin Franklin

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life. Joseph Campbell

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.   John Muir

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.                        Eric Hoffer  Thanks to all for your vote, I have been awarded 3rd place in the Canon Photography in the Parks Contest. Now it time to get busy again...      Mike

Hello everyone, My image "Octopus House" has been selected as one of the ten finalist in the Canon's "Photography in the Park" Contest. Their judges have gotten it to this point and now its up to the public to pick the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Grand Prize winners. I am so excited and would greatly appreciate if you would give Canon your info and vote for my image. You can only vote once per email address, but you also have a chance to win a Canon camera just for voting. Here's how, First you have to select a teen photo, then mine's in the adult group, then select between the two and then enter all your info.  Sorry for the hoops, seems they only want serious voters. You can vote for "Octopus House" here; http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=1326&refID=16 Thanks so much for your support, Mike H

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.   - Robert Louis Stevenson

Title Going Down Together     An image I took early one morning for a club competition. The theme of competition was Old, Run Down, Weathered, Abandoned and/or Discarded. When I first spotted this I knew it had potential, it wasn't until much later that it hit me over the head. You would think that after almost 50 years of sailing, living on and always near boats and water that the symbolism would have spoken sooner.  Anyway I'm going to go give her a hug and I don't mean the boat...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.    Margaret Fuller

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? - Oscar Hammerstein, II  

You can observe a lot just by watching.  - Yogi Berra  A frighteningly large close-up of sculptor Tasset's eyeball, "Eye" is blown up more than 1,000 times and looms 30 feet over its base in Pritzker Park at State and Van Buren streets, Chicago. The shocking blue eye stares east on State Street, and is all red veins from the back.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Bishop Desmond Tutu  The above is a sculpture called "Cloud Gate" it is located in Millennium Park downtown Chicago. The city scape is a reflection of downtown. Locals call it "the bean".

I'm always energized by Anti crepuscular rays. I never noticed them when I was younger, now I see them all the time. I often wonder what else I'm missing.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery! Wanda Landowska

Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one John Lennon

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell This sky was exactly as its shown, all I had to do was run around until I found the century plant.

I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all. Joni Mitchell Additional Images from the project

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.  Blaise Pascal Save the Sea Turtle

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein My son and daughter-in-law just had their first child, a beautiful little girl named Alana. When she arrived in the hospital room the energy level went off the scale and it all felt like love.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world, is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly. Shakti Gawain I threw him to deeper water... Meanwhile a young trio were saving life on a bigger scale take a look here... Other images from this trip...