The Alchemy of Moments

I snapped this photo last Saturday on Mt. Tamalpais. The light in the creek was breathtaking. The forces and substances swirling together to create this intersection of time and place transcended what my mind could grasp. Countless strands of energy and matter, of sun, rain, stones, trees, gravity and mystery produced this fleeting image. I wondered how I could translate nature's techniques for creating beauty and poetry into making architecture...