Heart of the Stone

Things have been busy around the “corporate offices” (ahem!) of Graf Photography, with the unfortunate casualty of keeping the blog going.   I had to lay off my writing staff to replace them with printing and imaging technicians to keep up with the recent order rush.   My accounting department has been busily processing print orders that have been just constant over the past 2 months.

Art sales over the internet is still alive and well.   In parallel, my IT department has been scouring the web to find a fitting new blog template as I am growing tired of this one.  They submitted some proposals for my review, but the search remains ongoing.

I am thinking of adding some field helpers to the staff.  I haven’t been out much since the weather turned cold – freezing in fact.   I have to keep an eye on all the activity around here.   Some of staff can be quite high maintenance, requiring too much management oversight. But I was thinking about how much more motivated I may be with some helpers lugging gear for me, catering hot beverages and the occasional hot sandwich.   I’ll have to hold a few staff meetings on this.

So when the employees have gone home for the night, and things settle down – I get to work on a few images.      🙂   The recent one in this post I titled “Heart of the stone”.

With the blood red color in this stone, and the lines representing arteries, I suppose it isn’t too far off to imagine blood pumping through this scene.   The brighter area representing some type of central life force.   At least that was what was flowing through my head in working on this image.   To the contrary, we mostly think of rocks as still and lifeless.   But when you contemplate just how all of those lines, curves, and colors came to be over thousands of years – you get the sense of a planet building up its cellular tissues.

Well, it is off to bed now – seems the morning rush hour approaches all too quickly.   Note to self – call secretary in the morning to make the tea extra strong.