Top 25 Fav Photos I took in 2025 (25 for ’25!)

Photography is one of my favorite spiritual practices. I love to capture perspectives often missed, or focus in on a detail, play with angles, light, and textures. I try to take notice of the remarkable, or the profound among the plain, the curious, atypical spaces and elements. Photography invites me to pause, wonder, have patience, and pay attention. Like writing (which I also love), photography is a way to communicate things often difficult to articulate. It tries to make sense of Mystery, emotion, and innermost pondering. I hope you enjoy these! (Descriptions/captions under each photo, although they also say a lot without.)

Flying helps bring a different perspective! Red Rocks, Morrison, CO on a crisp, blue sky January day.

Snow and branch contrasts never cease to amaze me.

I took this one after visiting my son at SCF. The emotions I felt internally seemed to be reflected in this isolated, but bright structure. Sterling, CO.

There can’t be a more perfect facial expression for Metallica’s lead singer. And I love the perspective of the crowd below. A unique visual. Metallica concert at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO.

This one captures the quaintness of Sausalito, CA. I love the sharp color spots on the forefront tree.

Buildings are always fun to photograph. San Francisco sandwiched between the bay and the clouds.

So many points of interest in this one. Angles, the buildings and windows, the sky, the depth. Taken at the crest of Nob Hill, looking down California Street.

B-boy! In black and white. (80’s kid? IYKYK) At Pier 39.

The signs, the books, the reader- and how they’re connected; are they connected? Taken at City Lights bookstore, San Francisco.

Chinatown, San Fran

“That all the trees will be okay…” (Lump in throat, eyes welled with tears…)

Part of the exterior of the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy- a public elementary school in San Francisco’s Castro district, where children are empowered in learning awareness, acceptance, nonviolence, and social justice; that rights are not a given, but must be fought for. Imagine if ALL schools included such a curriculum… I love this photo. The image itself is just cool. But the collage of Children’s hopes and dreams- profound. “Would you like to take a day off?” “I have a dream that one day people won’t kill each other…” and of course, “That all the tree will be okay…”

This was taken at Pink Triangle Park- the first permanent memorial in the U.S remembering the thousands of victims who were identified as homosexual, bisexual, or transgender and were persecuted in N*zi Germany. While this one doesn’t show the pink triangle itself, I love how the pink peeks through the green of the succulents, and is fitting, given it is at the Pink Triangle Park. (We should be paying attention to the way similar persecution and danger is happening to the LGBTQ+ community- especially trans beloveds in the U.S. at a heightened level under current authoritarian/fascists threats…)

Muir Woods, CA (Imagine if you, as the viewer, were going to float upward in this image. Might you go up to the center toward the leaves and the sky? Or might you go up into that open layer of bark?)

Chinga La Migra! The message is important, but I also love the textures, colors, and simplicity of this photo…

Botanical Gardens/Conservatory of Flowers in San Fran. IMO, the photo would not be complete without the bud in the upper righthand corner. Where does your eye go? (I believe this flower is a Dahlia- Ball Type. Are you a mathematical nerd?)

I love when ocean waters reveal so many colors at once. Ship in the distance, a perfect accent. The Pacific.

My cat, Kevin. Cats can be so SHAPED!…

“The tradition of writing prayers and auspicious wishes for others on streamers and allowing them to soar with the winds is implemented in many cultures…” Prayer flags/streamers, including one of my own. Sanctuary Center, Sedalia, CO. Can you hear the softness of the breeze, the whispering dance of the streamers?

Feminine power, the rocks, the tree… Sanctuary Center, Sedalia, CO.

So much symbolism in this photo of the Black Madonna. Look at her face, look at the background, what’s around her, in front of her, to the right of her, how is it relevant to social justice issues at hand? Sanctuary Center, Sedalia, CO.

Inside the chapel at The Sanctuary Center, holding a singing bowl. Again, there is so much happening in this photo- so many curiosities, invitations…

The communion table on World Communion Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church, Denver. Breads and cloths from around the world. (I also arranged the table.)

Glorious fall happening to a maple in our neighborhood.

Have you ever peeked through a skeleton in the way only a cat can? Kevin & Skelly.

It is incredibly difficult to capture the moon the way the human eye can- it’s impossible. But I was kind of happy with this attempt. I actually took it through my car’s windshield sitting in the parking lot after a hospital shift, getting ready to go home. Lone Tree, CO.

The end!