TITLE: Mood

Mighty ghostly Cypress trees are caught in unsettling state that mirrors my feelings in the white stillness wrapped around them.

I awoke early to attempt sunrise photos at William Kirsch Preserve at North Ranch Woods, Arkansas, US. I was wrong about where the sun arose.

However, I was surprised by a mystical fog floating the surface of Maumelle Lake and around cypress trees with an autumn tree backdrop. This pairing of trees front to back caught my attention. It is also surprising to find cypress trees this far north in Little Rock but here they stand in Little Rock, Arkansas.

AUTHOR: Y. Hope Osborn (United States)

Y. Hope Osborn is an author, photographer, digital artist, and editor residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Her published writing includes ecological experiences that educate and entertain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She relies on God’s strength to photographically document space and time of natural color environment; historic often dilapidated black and white studies of built; and more recently, where they intersect. Her absolute art is the fusion of photographs and texts of history and her story, weaving art with how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.

Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.

Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.