Greg Molyneux Photography

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Greg Molyneux’s latest photographs and words presented in reverse chronological order.

  • The Worn One

    The Worn One

    35mm low key photograph of a tall and withering purple coneflower silhouetted and brooding at sunset.
    The Worn One — 35mm | f/1.4 | ISO 400 | EXP 1/160

    July light fades a pink kiss goodbye. The worn one knows well not to believe the false promises softened in its pastel glow. Sirens of lies singing us onto the rocks of the forever young. Stay here forever and there will be no pain or woe. Life as it is with light moves on indifferent to any one plight or pleasure. For the Universal Powers have big work to do and none of it includes waiting on you.

    We stand afield planted, seeded and watered to grow only to wear and wither in but an eye blink of Big Time. In our winking we open ourselves to the beauty of worlds both big and small. People, places, and things to make us whole and worth it. This warmth buzzes about in orbit to pollinate our lives with richness and love.

    Then comes the crisis. The light fades stealing with it the freedom and innocence. It moves on unburdened as the oily peddler selling death in a bottle. Rooted the worn one wanes alone, naked and afraid.

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  • World Between Worlds

    World Between Worlds

    100mm macro photograph of a black swallowtail caterpillar set atop dill.
    World Between Worlds — 100mm | f/4 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/400

    What of the caterpillar? The two act play in a life lived twice. First bounded to a potted dill long gone to seed. Nothing more to do than eat. Eat and pray—pray your striped camouflage is enough to ward off prey. Birds whiz hither and dither somehow tricked by the ruse or warned off by its bright colored reticulated pattern. Color often means danger in the many corners of the animal kingdom, though I’m not sure that is the case here.

    Still I pause to wonder does she know what comes in act two? Should she endure to soon spool up into her silken cocoon to wait and to transform. A miraculous metamorphosis awaits. A death to one life followed by transformation and rebirth into another. Resurrection to new life. A wonder to behold.

    How would such a complete change of our physical being affect our lives and our self-awareness? What would it mean to become so fully remade? What then would it mean to be human? What then would the caterpillar think of us?

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  • All Blur

    All Blur

    35mm photograph of green summer salt marsh at blue hour. Panning left to right creates motion blur in the landscape photograph.
    All Blur — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/6 sec

    This corner of the internet has been quiet, eh? Rest assured all the noise has moved inside my head. Photographs have been hard to come by, and if I’m honest, the drive to make them has moved on. In short: this decade long hobby is down to fumes.

    There’s little sense in making proclamations—declaring this experiment in creativity over. With luck a new spark will fire tomorrow. Yet I am willing to share my total uncertainty over how often I’ll foist the camera moving forward. I’m grateful to how much this unexpected hobby has given me these past 10 years. A near unbroken space of growth and calm. A cloistered enclave where my hamster wheel brain ceases its captured spin. Talk about a safe space.

    That’s all gone now. What once restored life now saps strength. What once vented furious forces now yields to tectonic mountains of growing anxiety. There’s no more ensconced glacier of solitude to wear down the surging crags of my mind.

    And still, may tomorrow bring with it the surprise of good fortune to turn everything around.

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  • Peony Leisure

    Peony Leisure

    35mm portrait orientation photo of a single bright pink peony blossom. Shallow depth of field and smooth bokeh frame out a pollinating insect flying to the flower.
    Peony Leisure — 35mm | f/1.4 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/1250

    may peonies spring
    bright puffs to float you away
    to the home right here

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  • Heaven Scent

    Heaven Scent

    35mm dreamy photograph of pink lilacs fresh bloomed and glowing in silky smooth bokeh.
    Heaven Scent — 35mm | f/1.4 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/1000

    flowering lilac
    our fragrant welcome to spring
    atonement breathing

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  • The April Fool

    The April Fool

    Moody 35mm photo of a yellow daffodil blossom shot wide open with a bokeh rich shallow depth of field.
    The April Fool — 35mm | f/1.4 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/320

    The April Fool tramples his path
    Running roughshod through this world
    Joyous conceit
    Close-minded and haughtily assured
    Gilded, unperturbed

    Dazzled masses froth over such trappings
    The success, the power, the sprawling paper card manse propped up on the hill
    How do I get mine?
    Follow the April Fool
    For he knows not he knows nothing

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  • The Sea Moves

    The Sea Moves

    14mm wide angle landscape photo of blue hour reflected over Little Egg Harbor bay. Blended with intentional horizontal motion blur.
    The Sea Moves — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/4 sec

    Minimalism with intentional hand made motion blur. I love executing this kind of photograph. Combining a handheld approach with a smooth, confident motion panning from left to right into the sunset. It is much more involved than my typical tripod landscape. The latter leaving me with the sole task of pressing the shutter once I have framed my shot. Meanwhile this technique is visceral, taking me much closer to my own work. Involving me the way a baker kneads the bread—the hands are in there. Kneading it. Working it. Making it. Body, mind, and skill all coming together to produce something personal, something special. This process alone creates an intimacy with the work, and it shows through in the result. Here I am actually creating a thing with my hands. The sea moves right here in my palms.

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  • All I See

    All I See

    14mm wide angle sunset photo made in winter over the dormant Cedar Run Dock Road salt marsh.
    All I See — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    All I see is the flat horizon. A flattened span of unfettered possibility. An openness to explore. It is within this expanse infinite paths lie hidden underfoot, below our gaze and in our hearts. How do we find them? Where do we first look? Sure footed confidence will keep us steady and stable atop firm ground, the knowing. While the wayward step finds us mired in muck, faltered and bound, the unknowing. Here we get up, set our eyes upon fired horizons and fan the flame of becoming within. We step up. We step out. The infinite becomes finite and the finite becomes one; and this is all I see.

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  • Sky Floor

    Sky Floor

    14mm wide angle photo of a golden hour mackerel sky reflected over still waters of Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area.
    Sky Floor — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    Motes
    dance upon the sky floor
    shimmering scales of light glittering iridescence
    Lithe as the fish to water gliding gracious

    Essence
    turning she bends the light
    prismatic luster scintillate all senses
    Now you see how time does pass

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