Birds are the great travelers of the world, especially sea birds, who spend most of their lives on the wing, constantly moving over the waves and across the boundaries between water and land, born of two worlds, yet never entirely at rest in either.  They seemed fitting carriers of the images and emotions  expressed in these prayers and blessings for the journey, offered up by a pilgrim for friends who share the way, and for encountered strangers who are, after all,  fellow sojourners.
  Here are supplications for aid, comfort and guidance, as well as praise and thanksgiving for surprising joy.
The texts span thirty years of one man's trek through exile and exploration, through loss and exaltation,
finally coming to the high ground where away in the distance, one can see the lights of home.
  These images from the "Traveling Mercies" folio, "Wind" (right) "Flight" (below) and "Abide" (below right) were shot with a Nikon D80 on the South Carolina coast north of Murrell's Inlet.  The twelve prints are in borderless  format on 8 1/2 x 11 in. sheets of 200 gsm cold pressed archival paper.
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  While the texts were written over several decades, all the photographs were made in the spring and fall of 2008 on the Atlantic Coast in South Carolina.  "Home" (below) captures a lone gull in his element.
The folio envelope is crafted by Neil Enns at Dane Creek Folios in Snohomish, WA.