<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Chasing Ephemera</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Ansel Adams slept</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">on the roof of his car,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">venturing out on foot</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">into Death Valley until</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the desert sun relented,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and drew a perfect line</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">down the spine of a sand dune</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">into his Korona camera.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Galen Rowell stepped off</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the bus at twelve thousand feet,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and took off chasing a rainbow, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">while his colleagues opted</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">for the warmth of a stove.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Rowell ran until he caught </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the rainbow as it streamed down</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">onto the Dalai Lama’s palace.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Camera braced against a post,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">he captured more than he saw.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Mark Zukowski, awakened</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">by a full moon peering</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">into a Tomales Bay cabin,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">donned his robe and waited</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">for a sonata—</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a composition of moonlight</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and the glow from a shack</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">at the end of a pier.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">A photograph </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">that further proves,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">artists perpetuate </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the fleeting, unrepeatable </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">moment.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Steve Trenam</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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