Mars Positive Photo

Mars Positive Photo Mood, presence, and the comfort of human moments. Exploring philosophy, mysticism, and dream through words and image.

Retreat photography for organizers seeking natural, unobtrusive coverage of the full experience.

Shelby & Nick 🖤🖤
05/13/2026

Shelby & Nick 🖤🖤

This is a poem I wrote to myself, and to all of us who have experienced the deep, piercing grief over the loss of a spec...
04/25/2026

This is a poem I wrote to myself, and to all of us who have experienced the deep, piercing grief over the loss of a special cat. You know what it feels like to try and soothe yourself out of something dark.

Fluff-butt alert! This burrowing owl parent and their 4 owlets were very active this morning during sunrise. The babies...
04/24/2026

Fluff-butt alert!

This burrowing owl parent and their 4 owlets were very active this morning during sunrise. The babies were practicing their screeches (directed at me, the weird alien). I was surprised to see how big they were already, considering I hadn't seen ANY babies in any of the neighborhood burrows yet.

American Flamingo 🦩 (Phoenicopterus ruber)
04/21/2026

American Flamingo 🦩 (Phoenicopterus ruber)

The American White Ibis
04/21/2026

The American White Ibis

‘The Chinese Chest’ — 4.13.26Things I am supposed to feel lucky to find, but I wasn’t drawn to any of it. Restraint. Dis...
04/16/2026

‘The Chinese Chest’ — 4.13.26

Things I am supposed to feel lucky to find, but I wasn’t drawn to any of it. Restraint. Discernment. Seeing beyond the caricature of scale.





Somewhere along the way, early psych insights about projection got simplified and popularized into a kind of emotional s...
04/13/2026

Somewhere along the way, early psych insights about projection got simplified and popularized into a kind of emotional shorthand for self-awareness. I started questioning things when the concept ballooned, and started showing up everywhere. Said to me with certainty, with frothing eyes, like someone was handing me the key to everything. The same answer, no matter the question.

It’s intriguing when these sound bites arrive in small repeatable packages that come wrapped in moral elegance. But not everything you reject is something that you are. I get the appeal of believing that it is. If everything that unsettles you belongs to you, then nothing is really outside your reach.

It’s kind of funny. It’s like saying, the shadow has a shadow. But there’s a version of self-awareness that can quickly turn into self-surveillance. Where everything is suspicious and becomes yours to fix. I think some of what we call shadow work has been flattened into that.

Be open to learning about your inner landscape. Cast a wide net. Swing for the fences when it comes to introspection. Nothing wrong with that. Just don’t stop trusting your own signals in the presence of catchy certainties. Self-awareness is not meant to erase discernment.

This is a poem about someone I have known, and the way my mind continues to hold him. He first appeared in dreams, not ...
04/11/2026

This is a poem about someone I have known, and the way my mind continues to hold him.

He first appeared in dreams, not as a central figure, but as a presence at the edge. Just sort of lingering in the backdrop. Over time, he became more defined. He began to speak. In several dreams, he described our connection in terms that felt more explanatory than symbolic: that we had once been twins, and that in this life he had remained behind, able to reach me only in dreams. What stood out wasn’t just his recurrence, but the way he engaged. His responses weren’t predictable, and he often seemed to be acting on and sharing information I didn’t consciously have access to. At times, the interaction carried the distinct impression of being in the presence of another point of view, rather than an extension of my own.

Then something difficult happened. I met him in waking life. (Can you imagine how fractured and impossible that felt?). I didn’t have to feel the panic in a silo; he met me there, and for a moment the world felt rearranged, and open, but…. then it closed again. The quiet return of everything that was already there, of two lives that couldn’t overlap, just a feeling of confusion about how something so certain could have nowhere to go.

Since learning of his death, the memory of that meeting returned with a different weight. Not only as an isolated event, but in relation to the dreams that preceded it. The sequence now feels more like a continuous thread, though what exactly is being threaded… I’m not 100% sure. What I’m holding now is like a sealed glass room with incredible air in it. Rare, charged, unforgettable. I can enter it, breathe it, write from it. Grief is like this, a contained atmosphere. It looks for a location, something to attach to. So that it can be revisited, re-entered, and behave like a doorway that promises there is meaning on the other side.

Poets don’t resolve things, but I have no idea what else to do besides write about it. We hold the door open for contradiction and, on our best days, we try not to force a conclusion.

Direct experience matters to me. But I don’t think images are the enemy. A photograph can be a bridge. It can orient y...
04/09/2026

Direct experience matters to me. But I don’t think images are the enemy.

A photograph can be a bridge. It can orient your attention. It can make you care about a place, a person, a moment you would never otherwise encounter. It can even change your life trajectory. So I try to be careful and share the images that I think have the best chance of awakening impulses of wonder rather than simply satisfying them.

Don’t mistake the echo for the voice.

Each one of us is a sensitive instrument for disturbance, not always sure where the signal is coming from. With people ...
04/02/2026

Each one of us is a sensitive instrument for disturbance, not always sure where the signal is coming from. With people you’re close to, your systems are linked. Their state becomes part of your environment. Tension between these systems registers immediately, and it is natural to want to do something about it.

When you feel the urge to change someone’s state in order to stablize the field between you, it’s worth questioning what in you is asking for relief.

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