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"Until the landslide comes" #TomOgburn #EastCoastKin #ParkwaysProjects #DigitalCollage #Photography

#BlueSkyArtShow #Dream

They're 5 photos in this image. Composed to depict a realistic scene; it seems desolation. It was so, but then it became a National Park beloved by all.

Until Now ⬇️ #ALTtext
parkwaysprojects.bsky.social The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Feb 19
"Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you." ≈ Isabel Allende

"Until the landslide comes" #DigitalCompositeImage
#Photography #EastCoastKin #TomOgburn

#TheParkwaysProjects A multi-tiered photo essay to come in 3 arenas—a Substack/Patreon/Bluesky trio 🧵⬇️
This image was made from three separate images at three different regions of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The five photographs were made between 1933-1939. They show burn-overs, strip-logging, landslides, pulverized tree remnants and one small living spruce.These images of desolation are a beginning of something grand, much like the burned nest of the mythic Phoenix rising from its predecessor's ashes. For by 1955 these scarred lands were viewed with awe by families lured to the two parks and parkways joining them to each other. One could visit the Smokies, then drive on an unbroken ribbon overlooking greenery the entire way, all the way to the Shenandoah. “Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.” ≈ Janet Fitch This image most likely will have a few more supporting smaller images embedded into it before it’s done. Like most all of the Digital Hybrids I’m making, it begins with digital builds, and will weave into and weld with collage, printmaking, painting and at times in the end, with assemblage. The scale of the art will vary until the final larger pieces cap off that work sequence within the arc of making the final large pinnacle artworks. Something akin to that idea? In my lifetime, I have seen these changes, in the longest, slowest-of-motion march forward as the mind might imagine when willing to slow itself down to around three frames per minute, or the evidence of photographs made by tourists documenting the travels and places where they, for a moment, experienced their own sense of Time, perhaps even their own winters of spirit in retrospect if they had grown up in these regions.
April 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Until the landslide comes #TomOgburn #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #ParkwaysProjects #DigitalCollage #MountainMonday

There's 5 photos in this work. Composed to depict a realistic scene; it seems a desolation, but then became a National Park beloved by all.

4️⃣ ALT⬇️ &🧵 The other one maybe 1st on Substack 🤔
parkwaysprojects.bsky.social The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Feb 19
"Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you." ≈ Isabel Allende

"Until the landslide comes" #DigitalCompositeImage
#Photography #EastCoastKin #TomOgburn

#TheParkwaysProjects A multi-tiered photo essay to come in 3 arenas—a Substack/Patreon/Bluesky trio 🧵⬇️
This image was made from three separate images at three different regions of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The five photographs were made between 1933-1939. They show burn-overs, strip-logging, landslides, pulverized tree remnants and one small living spruce.These images of desolation are a beginning of something grand, much like the burned nest of the mythic Phoenix rising from its predecessor's ashes. For by 1955 these scarred lands were viewed with awe by families lured to the two parks and parkways joining them to each other. One could visit the Smokies, then drive on an unbroken ribbon overlooking greenery the entire way, all the way to the Shenandoah. “Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.” ≈ Janet Fitch This image most likely will have a few more supporting smaller images embedded into it before it’s done. Like most all of the Digital Hybrids I’m making, it begins with digital builds, and will weave into and weld with collage, printmaking, painting and at times in the end, with assemblage. The scale of the art will vary until the final larger pieces cap off that work sequence within the arc of making the final large pinnacle artworks. Something akin to that idea? In my lifetime, I have seen these changes, in the longest, slowest-of-motion march forward as the mind might imagine when willing to slow itself down to around three frames per minute, or the evidence of photographs made by tourists documenting the travels and places where they, for a moment, experienced their own sense of Time, perhaps even their own winters of spirit in retrospect if they had grown up in these regions.
April 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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🦉And so it begins, not where it ended, but from where it began as a dream.

A sliver of space amid torrents of rain #TomOgburn #photography #JulianPriceMemorialPark #art #PhotographersOfBlueSky #KodakInstamatic
#ParkwaysProjects #EastCoastKin 🦋 #ArtYear #ArtMicroBurst🚀 4️⃣ALT⬇️ #BlueSkyArtShow #Dreams
parkwaysprojects.bsky.social The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Apr 1
🌙🦉 #TheParkwaysProjects A multi-tiered photo essay to come in three arenas: a Substack/Patreon/Bluesky trio.

A sliver of space amid torrents of rain, #TomOgburn #photography #JulienPriceSP #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BlueskyArt #Skyart #photos #camping
#EastCoastKin 🦋 #ArtYear #KodakInstamatic 4️⃣ALT⬇️
1963 Impala, 1969 Camper at campsite D16, Julian Price State Park. This Kodak Instamatic photograph is of a car & pop-up camper against a dark olive-black forest made at the start of a rain soaked weekend. It’s why the canvas is sagging, for it was saturated by the time I took this photograph. I was a 13 year old agnostic of two years, formerly Methodist & thoroughly soaked to the skin on a cold August gloaming off the Blue Ridge Parkway. I considered this its baptism—would it welcome me back inside? Before this drenching, I would swear it had no religion. The cardinal rule was to not touch the inner surface of the canvas. Or the great flood would come. It may seem I have a theme but not by plan. Nor any commandment to the best of my recollection. It’s easy to remember what three full days & nights plus a few extra hours of drenching rains does to the spirit when camping. 1963 Chevrolet Impala. Dark metallic brown. White top, painted, not vinyl. 1969 Coleman pop-up tent camper. A beautiful golden maple brown. 1969 at Julian Price State Park, North Carolina. Campsite D16. I’ve since camped in that site four more times over 54 years of my life. On the last trip to the Parkway in October of 2023 I learned it was slated for retirement due to the narrow pullout space & steep walk down into the campsite. Due to Fate, fortune & climate change, I still don’t know if D-16 still exists. If no, then a part of myself will not exist. Even under brilliant sunlight, even if 6,000 miles away from this place. In August 2019, August & October 2023, it rained during, but not throughout my stays there. In 1972 I remember being in this site for a full week. It was only me, the first year of no more family vacations. It did not rain once. I was there two nights in 2019; gone at daybreak. Two nights in 2022. sne night in October 2023. In all my dreams, I would never have considered this site, this campground, this Parkway to ever become decommissioned.
April 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Here's a #tree offering 🍃 "Twin sisters of different mothers"
#EastCoastKin #TreeTuesday #trees #naturephotography
#photography #treemendous #treetrunktuesday #Lakeside
#SouthernGothic #ParkwaysProjects #NPS #travel #art #BlueSkyPhotography #StateParks #LakeMarion #SC
#Boating ALTtex has a story 🦉
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ≈ Ansel Adams And he meant that, in a few more ways than one. Here, precariously stands a tree I photographed in 2018. "It" is "They" actually, for its two trees joined at the base, truly sharing osmosis between them. One was cypress, that I knew. The other was a very different kind of tree & also ... at the crowns of both, mistletoe had taken hold by some fluke loong, long ago. I was there again in 2024. I walked down to the shoreline, knowing it was likely gone. It was. I've learned now the old dock's being removed. Everything in this scene then, subject-wise, is gone. The sky is gray, end of day, with a hint of hazed blue at top. The water's golden, long grass golden & fallen over at the trees bases. There's a large trunk which is bent underneath the remaining earthen bank, curving slightly upward then plunging back into the water, all earth which once surrounded it eroded away long ago. This scene is a study in entropy & for that reason is in my top five favorite works in "The America: Lost & Found" series. From my notes: "One night, a few months back in the early fall when the waters were down on Lake Marion, I was walking by its north shore and saw a ghost. On viewing it, I began to hear whispers of old arguments told by one of the voices closest to me for so many years. A very old waterlogged and siltified tree trunk, smooth and very gelatinous, almost like a giant dead salamander having lain on the bank for too many days, was beating between the piers of an old dock stretched out into the waters of the lake. On either end of that log were deep grooves worn into its circumference, old and slick as well, from the chains or cables which evidently had held it in place for far too long." That describes what are called "ghost trees"—those which, at the end of the land clearing project my grandfather was one of the supervisors for between 1936-1940, had to be staked down.They had crashed the timber market.
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Peace regards the passage of Light #TomOgburn #Skyart #landscape #EastCoastKin 🦋 #ArtYear #Art #photography #BlueskyArt #SouthernGothic #urbex #DigitalCollage

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A photograph of a woman seated, working her fingers together as she pondered a conversation across a room. A room where she was sitting for a scene in which she was to be the personification of Peace, arguing with the personification of War, whom she’d grown up knowing since the dawn of Time. I began this particular piece about a week after I returned from Colorado early August, 2004. I had taught four classes as an adjunct for two semesters in Charleston, South Carolina. I’d been making art full time by then for just over ten years, after 17 years as an illustrator, graphic designer, then adding advertising and marketing while in Seattle for eight years. On returning to South Carolina from the Northwest in 1998, with a couple of years going back and forth back to Seattle doing album design work for musician friends. Here’s something I’ve shared before, but now there’s more people reading and likely to be hearing this for the first time. In 1988 I started sharing with friends and peers I’d worked with in commercial art that “I’ll quit when I’m 40.” In hindsight, I’ve always asked myself why I decided to wait. These days, I’d like to go back and yank that idea out of my 34 year-old head. For I should have quit as soon as I realized I was going to quit. I say this as an introduction to something, for we all come to cruxes in our lives. Often more than once. Sometimes more often than we can imagine.
March 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Nest over Estes #TomOgburn #America:Lost&Found #HybridWorks #Photography #BlueskyArt #Skyart #BlueskyPhotography #Landscape #Nature #DigitalCollage

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I've been going to Estes Park for one reason or another since 1979. This is a view from Prospect Mountain, high above the town proper, safe from flooding but not from fire. If I could have figured out a way to live there early on I would have, and in 2004, I almost did. A teaching position opened up at a college back East though, so I left there in August of 2004. I love this town. Resilience stems from Estes, in my imagination. Windswept pines over a hundred years old cling to the rocky outcroppings of Prospect Mountain. Two of them are framing the town of Estes Park below. Colors are all muted buffs, grays, and browns save for the tree in the foreground and the needles of the tree on the right. Those have deeper, richer greens and the bark is a strong deep reddish brown. MacGregor Ridge is in the far distance, about two miles away as the crow flies. From my notebooks; a post: "Between a fire just a few years ago which took out much of the historic district of Estes Park, and the recent massive flooding, the high mountain town has experienced much devastation . My best wishes and prayers to all my friends who are there, working to rebuild and to reclaim their land, homes, businesses, and hearts." ≈ to my friends in Estes Park, 2013
March 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I love Franetta's work. I first saw her on my other account (ParkwaysProjects) and was blown away at the breadth and scope of her art. It just beautiful.

Ya'll try to check it out if you can 🌞🌙 It just may be the best new scroll of your day!
February 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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🧵1️⃣ I've not tried to quote another person's repost. Since yesterday's #BlueSkyArtShow was such fun & my Main, account (Bardicarts) it becomes my petri dish.

I may keep doing this for posts at BS that are National Parks or State Parks related inside this Dedicated site "ParkwaysProjects." 🪔🦉⬇️
bardicarts.bsky.social Tom Ogburn 🪔 @bardicarts.bsky.social · Jan 11
"Ars Fugis,"a Snake River span in #Idaho. It seems wistful now as we're in a national sea of fire now. #Layers of smoke & concrete spalling from the WPA era #bridge. From my SxSW series of #Photography & #DigitalCompositeImages

#Landscape #WildFires #FineArt #CanonA5 #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow
bardicarts.bsky.social Tom Ogburn 🪔 @bardicarts.bsky.social · Nov 20
In 2000 & 2001, the fires from Mesa Verde to Idaho were predominant. It was the first glimpse of what was to come, into the now. It was 2001 when all hell broke loose, & fires raged from Mesa Verde to the Canadian border.

This photo was made that year. I don't know of this bridge still exists. 🔥
January 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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🦉A long shadow of a red leaf trapped #TomOgburn #Photography #BlueskyArt #Skyart #BlueskyPhotography #Landscape #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Bluesky🦋

#ParkwaysProjects —A multi-tiered photo essay in 3 media arenas: A Substack Patreon & Bluesky trio 💙 Please click below to follow the Parkways stories ⬇️🙏🌿
"A long shadow of a red leaf trapped," a raw photo while walking November 11th 2024, six days after the election. The next to last day I've walked since then, for three days later I learned of Bluesky. A single red leaf has fallen & caught, wind-curled over onto itself in the wide crack of a sidewalk. It's casting a long but frail shadow. The red leaf, left side of screen, stands apart from the grainy gray of the concrete sidewalk poured circa 1972. Not that long ago, probably around the time of another grayer election. On looking for photographs of documents I've been backing up on my iPhone this year, I found this quickly forgotten sequence of photographs, three groups of which were made before this past election of November 5th, 2024. On the morning of the 6th I walked about 12 miles around & around the neighborhood, sorting out thoughts while recording leaves on the streets & sidewalks. It was more of a way to clear my head. The same pattern followed on November 7th, then the 9th, 10th, 11th & finally the 14th although memory is prodding me that I transferred one sequence of shots from November 17th. On that day I was breaking away from doomscrolling. There is something about the frailty of leaves, the last gasp of which occurs in the fall as colors evade the reality of dying; when photosynthesis has ended. Soon they become flatter imprints upon the grain of tarmac & pavement. Embossed onto the concrete & sand. As thoughts also inevitably must do. On finding them again, I realized these recordings mark a ribbon of time consisting of 30 days. Omne trium perfectum failed in a great gasp & collapse. The substrate of concrete, asphalt & sand is a ground for watching flickering wisps of leaves erode away finally into one unobserved instance, the leavings as traceries of their veins along these streets.
April 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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I loved this one when I saw it on my ParkwaysProjects account. Love it even more now. Ravens grow on you! 🏵️🌙
February 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I love this one even more now than when I saw it on my ParkwaysProjects account this morning. This is a lovely, lovely work. 🌞🏵️🌙
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025
🦉 Stage three. Should be coming to a close soon.

My 'ParkwaysProjects alterego, above; I'll try to have this one completed in early May.

#Atalaya triptych, (working title).

#HuntingtonIsland #HuntingtonBeach #SouthCarolina #SCPRT #BrookgreenGardens
April 21, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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I really love this shot; even more now that I'm seeing it for the second time (I was looking at everyone's posts on my ParkwaysProjects account this morning) Very, very lovely image! 🌞🌙
February 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Awesome, powerful shot man! I love the rigging reflections. 🌞🏵️🌙 Saw it this morning on my ParkwaysProjects run-through; this one's one of the best I think of the day. Looking at it more closely now
February 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Yep, under notifcations 😅 On @BardicArts, I've been on Blusky since Nov 15th. On ParkwaysProjects, only active on that account for 35 days or so. LOL...but on neither of them could figure out how to keep up with comments and responses as one grows. Whew! "Mentions" helps tremendously! 😀💙
February 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Thank you for all the support @parkwaysprojects I also have @bardicarts (my broadband multimedia arts account) - I really appreciate it 🌙🦉 You asked about the ALT text? Similarly to you, I saw it and clicked, then when I saw the 2000 character well💡"click"

I did look into it first to make sure 🦋...
March 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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You're very welcome Lauri, I find a lot of variable usages by people when they quote-post. I use mine for a very specific support conduit to my "ParkwaysProjects" account (as I did last night) in an effort to boost & amplify that account; I love that project idea so, that I really hope it works!
February 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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WoW!!!!

*coughs* Well, alrighty then... 1st: My apologies for not seeing this sooner. For the last three days I've been working my @parkwaysprojects account and Just got back into this one.

I think, as a thread, this def qualifies for a "personal best." But whew, where to start?...
February 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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I apologize if I did something aggravating (I hope not offensive) on my ParkwaysProjects account earlier, while corresponding with you on your posts for (scape). I was flying on it all day plus trying to prep for the BSAS event tonight.
February 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Thanks Susan 🙏😊 Dawning awareness becomes illumination now! 🏵️ 😀

So I can add my works from my "@parkwaysprojects" (they are all images relevant to GSM Natl Park, Blue Ridge & Skyline Drive Parkways, & Shenandoah NP to the themed Saturday BSAS events (chosen to fit the theme of course...)
January 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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🌴 The other is a Patreon site, which seems to be settling into the idea of having 11 tiers for many good reasons. My original concept was to only use Patreon as home for The #ParkwaysProjects

Now it will exist in 3 modes: Here at #Bluesky at my Substack base and at Patreon. And on tomogburn.net 🪔
tomgburn.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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THAT is the best argument for a drone! I've wanted to get one for a few years now, but usually end up getting equipment for other media I'm working in. But for my ParkwaysProjects a drone would be an incredible resource!

Thanks for the profound nudge to making a new major addition my studio! 🌙🌴🦉
March 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Hey Luis, I'm Tom Ogburn over at Bardicarts—same person. My ParkwaysProjects series is just now a dedicated account to keep its focus more on Smoky Mountains NP, Shenandoah NP, Blue Ridge & Skyline Drive Parkways which connect the two. It's been in the plans for a few years, now launching though 🏵️🌙
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Okay, yes! I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing your wonderful scenic views of your country 🪔🌙 You do absolutely beautiful work! Thanks so much for joining the ParkwaysProjects!

Now I need to return to your other account too 😎💙
February 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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You're more than welcome; I love minimalist landscape work, close studies of what is all about us, and macros just wallop me! I don't do those.

This is my dedicated parkwaysprojects newbie; I waned to make all my mistakes on my overall page...

@bardicarts.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM