Last night, while I was taking the trash to the “trash room” in my apartment complex, I noticed two pictures that someone had thrown out. One is a landscape view of a forest with vivid green leaves and brown tree trunks. The other is an enlarged view of two wine glasses and a bottle of wine. It is classy and elegant, and perfect for our dining room. After careful examination I discovered that there was nothing physically wrong with these pictures. The frames were in tact; the pictures were not ripped… so why did someone throw these out?

 The Snapshot pictures got me to thinking, if nature in itself was a form of art to be appreciated. Personally, I think the way nature seeps into the city is a form of art. In Patricia's photograph of the Cathedral and of the statue that resided in such place, there existed a sense of nature's presence. Perhaps I sensed it in the water filling the fountain or in the trees that played a role in the background. The point is that without such a context of nature, I believed the photograph would not have been as beautiful, or for that matter the statue in itself.

 This past Sunday was the day of the Snapshot pictures and I took my pictures in riverside park. I actually took a whole bunch of photographs on mostly nature oriented subjects ranging from water to trees to rocks to sunlight. I noticed that in order to capture a beautiful shot, I did not necessarily need to prepare myself in any way. I did not give the photographs much thought in regards to angle, zoom, or even my body position itself. Nevertheless, each photograph was unique in its own way. Each image revealed its beauty by simply exposing nature itself.

Since we're on the topic of dance, here are two great videos that you will enjoy and relate to. There are many types of dances, and as the paper that we have read about Mark Morris, choreography to a music piece can be interpreted in many ways.