Although artistically edited in Photoshop, this is one of my favorite nature photos.

I had a sense of ancestral evolution; but not of man evolving from inferior ape;

but rather of the grace that man can aspire and evolve to as portrayed in the photograph.

When I took this shot (waist up), I thought his Harley Davidson tee shirt told his story; however when I began to edit the photo I quickly saw a lifetime written in his face.

A life of motorcycles, bars, and fights; but also a life of hard work and strong values.

I vertically shortened the crop to draw attention to the battle scars on his nose and the weariness in his eyes.

With most people and with most shots, it's the face that tells a thousand stories. For this homeless man, it was his hands.

These two hands that have done bone-weary work; been exposed to a lifetime of freezing cold and searing heat day-in and day-out; that have held meager portions of food to survive a few more hours.

And on this day hands to hold his sign and hands to express himself to another stranger in hopes of touching a heart.

Mountain Storm over Tucson is another rare landscape from me.

The approaching storm and the light were just too perfect to pass up.