“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams

Silence. It’s not just a lack of sounds or background noise, but an entire place of stillness.
And I visit it often.

True silence creates a haven within the mind and soul, and gives a feeling of wholeness…or maybe emptiness — sometimes the two intersect and I can’t tell them apart. Sometimes facing the silence is harder than filling your life with as many distractions as possible…but it always circles back to silence. It’s there — in every beginning, every middle, and every end. Embrace it.

our different sameness is a project between a group of photographers celebrating our differences and sameness through images and words. Click the link and take a minute to see what the whole group came up with for this month’s theme! You can see my past contributions to the series here.

– m