Nature Beings and Glitch Eco-Art Photography
Welcome to this celebration of the life-forms who look after our plants, deserts, forests and parks. You’ll find many photographs and stories about nature beings that I have been collecting over twenty years of photographic journeys. My photography falls within the relatively new school of Glitch Ecology Art, which features visual ecological information that shouldn’t be there – but is. You can learn more about this art form in my article, housed in my Interdimensional Library.
Be sure to visit the International Nature Beings Photographers Gallery, housed on this website. It features photographers who have a focus on documenting the activities of nature beings.
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Saying Good-Bye to the William Penn Oak
She left this life with true Quaker grace. On a warm sunny autumn Tuesday, our 350 year old white oak gracefully and quietly lay down. Not a great noisy exit - a gentle descent in the only direction that would avoid excessive harm to any other being. This White Oak...
Working with the Nature Beings
Here are three types of nature beings who are specifically interested in working in partnership with humans. They are responsible, ancient, complex leaders in their dimension. Learn to connect to these protectors and advocates. You can begin by focusing on these photos. Get used to their frequency then go out into your area and find local representatives of these realms for yourself.
Love, Dowsing and the Equinox
My September Newsletter is out - filled with information about love, dowsing and the Equinox. Information about our new Encyclopedia categories, including Imps, Pixies and Brownies. Check it out!
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She left this life with true Quaker grace. On a warm sunny autumn Tuesday, our 350 year old white oak gracefully and quietly lay down. Not a great noisy exit – a gentle descent in the only direction that would avoid excessive harm to any other being.
This White Oak had been gracing the front yard of London Grove Monthly Meeting, Kennett Square, PA since the late 1680s. It is believed she was present when William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, first visited this meeting.
Our tree died of root rot, an issue with white oaks, and we humans worked with Longwood Gardens and many other arborists to keep her alive. She and her nature being colleagues worked from their side to keep her alive. She lived a good long life and passed gracefully into spirit.
Read more of the story at atalatoy.com/blog/2023/09/saying-good-bye-to-the-william-penn-oak/
Sorry she is gone,she was Beautiful
So majestic !!!
Last chance to sign up for my Thu Sept 21 zoom Equinox workshop - Connecting to the Wood-Wide Web. 7-9 pm CDT. Sponsored by Infinity Foundation - tinyurl.com/3htnbxzx
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Last chance to sign up for my Thu Sept 21 Equinox workshop - Connecting to the Wood-Wide Web. 7-9 pm CDT. Connect via Zoom from wherever you live! Sponsored by Infinity Foundation - https://tinyurl.com/3htnbxzx #woodwideweb #equinox2023 #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography
This was Saturday`s Photo of the Day, at the Crosslands Community Website. It`s a closeup of one I`ve shown you long view. Closeup you can see the wonderful heart with face inside that shows the friendship between these two tree beings. This tree lives in the woods at our PA community. #heartsintrees #treeheart #treebeings #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography #treelove
Miners Castle, MI is a wonderfully alive rock formation. Here`s a view from Lake Superior and another from the Pictured Rocks cliffs. How many faces can you find in the close up? I find at least six... This promontory was recognized as an especially holy place by both Native Americans and the early European pioneers, miners and loggers. #minerscastle #picturedrocks #munisingmi #rockbeings #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography
There are three kinds of nature beings who are especially interested in working with humans. Read about them at https://atalatoy.com/blog/2023/09/working-with-nature-beings/
#gnomes #greenmen #ladiesoftheforest #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography
There is an very informative dowsing conference being held Oct 4-10 in Flagstaff, AZ. Lots of wonderful information and a keynote presentation by Grahame Gardener, British dowsing great.
I am a featured speaker and workshop presenter, and also leading the Saturday morning 7am community meditation gathering. Registration for the conference is available at https://dowserssouthwest.com/ #dowsing #flagstaffdowsers2023 #interdimensionalcommunication #naturebeings
My September newsletter is out, with links to my upcoming workshops and some new nature being encyclopedia photos. https://conta.cc/3r53qbu #naturebeingsnewsletter #dowsing #flagstaffaz #equinox #infinityfoundation
This imp has long entranced me with his mischievous expression. He reminds me of little kids playing tricks on people This fine fellow lives in an old stump up at Council Lake, UP, MI. This is quite the site! Over in another part of the woods I discovered the tall tree skeleton shown here, which looks like a benign shadow walker. #imps #shadowwalker #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography #upperpeninsulamichigan
Ominous bark faces are next to what looks like ogham-style messages. Are these simply formed from the travels of bark beetles or is there a message we need to decode?
These marking are sculpted into a now-barkless dead tree who once grew along the banks of the Fox River, in St. Charles, IL. Shown here is the close up of the markings, the full tree and at its base….is that a tree portal into the underworld, along with its guardian spirit? https://atalatoy.com/product/ogham-message-underworld/
#ogham #oghamtrees #naturebeingsphotography #stcharlesil #stcharlesillinois #treemarkings
An elderly prairie falcon with frayed feathers faces off against four magpies, one looking in each of the four directions. They sit on a skeletal cougar head; the head has deeply down-turned mouth and a dark eye weeping tears.
Falcons are symbol of wisdom, protection and change. Magpies, like their black and white coloring, are harbingers of the dark and of the light – symbols of the duality of opposites. They are birds of divination and the occult.
From another angle, the same formation looks like a healthy cougar looking for dinner.
This is a commemorative sculpture mourning the demise of the cougar and of Native American traditions common to this area - Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO
read more at my blog https://atalatoy.com/blog/2023/08/cougar-specter-magpies-duality-of-time/
#gardenofthegodscolorado #gardenofthegodscolorado #rockbeings #naturebeingsphotography #cougarspirit
Fun! My photo of a face in a local pond was selected as Photo of the Day, at the Crosslands Community website, where I now live. I was taking a walk, enjoying the day and photographing the lovely greens of the pond when its guardian spirit said hello and asked me to photograph him! #scottpond #crosslandscommunity #facesinwater #guardianspirits #naturebeings
CONNECTING TO THE WOOD-WIDE WEB - Zoom Class with Atala Toy
Cycles of time and frequency express themselves throughout nature’s seasons. The veils between the worlds are thinnest at the equinoxes, making it easier for you to perceive and visit with nature beings. Connect to the energy of specific forest beings such as greenmen, gnomes, and elves using specific focus techniques.
Nature beings often craft their living stories into trees and rocks – lifeforms who have long been recognized as portals between our two realms.
Take a visual adventure and get ready for the fall equinox. Be inspired by 20 years of nature beings in Atala`s photographic portfolio.
Discover how to locate and tune into the frequency of the subtle forest inhabitants. Work with the intelligence of your inner knowing to photograph them. Gain useful image processing methods to highlight your portrait finds.
Clarify processes and share your own methodologies as you participate in fresh, open, and synergistic discussion.
This course is available on Zoom. You will be emailed a Zoom link closer to the time of the class. The course will be recorded and you will receive a link to watch it.
INFINITY FOUNDATION
Date Thursday, September 21
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM CST
Cost $35/30 payment 10 days in advance
https://www.infinityfoundation.org/connecting-to-the-wood-wide-web #woodwideweb #equinoxevents #naturebeingsphotography #greenman #zoomcourses #onlinephotographycourses
Glitch Ecology Art explores visual information that shouldn`t be there - but is. This is a category that has emerged in our digital age, originally as a description of aesthetic disruptions in computer processing.
The understanding of this visual category keeps morphing. I see “Glitch Ecology Art” as including images of non-human-lifeforms that are sometimes visible in trees and rocks. These are dimensional glitches that occur in locations where the veils between the worlds have thinned, or "glitched."
Read more about this category of art at my blog - https://atalatoy.com/blog/2023/08/glitch-ecology-art-nature-beings/
#glitchart #glitchecology #glitchartist #naturebeingsphotography #interdimensional #interdimensionalart #interdimensionalbeings
Love - a new Encyclopedia Category on my website. There are so many variations on love stories - in nature as well as in human realms. I`ve assembled the stories I`ve photographed over the years and placed them in this new area of my website. Here`s one of my favorites - The Kiss - a young man and young woman, kissing perpetually in rock, with a tree root knotted into a heart between them. Check out all the stories at https://atalatoy.com/product-category/galleries/encyclopedia/love/
#kissingtrees #rocklove #rocklovers #rockbeings #naturebeings
This fellow looks like he`s a very regular visitor at the local nature beings pub. He seems to have had one too many and it`s time to go home. There are all types and levels of spirit beings on this large property, owned by a spirit-sensitive family. #pubcrawler #treespirit #treebeing #naturebeings #naturebeingphotography
The family on this property is spiritually oriented and is having serious medical issues. One of the trees on the property manifested this physical reassurance - a long-haired spirit being supportively looking down, with a heart for an eye. Alas, the shadows are growing long on this situation. #protectiveangel #treeface #guardianspirit #heartforeye #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography
Here`s an interesting image. It`s in a tree that has grown between two properties, where the owner of the land behind this tree is always spying on and sniping at the owner of the property in front of the tree. A hiding spying nature being has manifested that energy! #treebeings #naturebeings #naturebeingsphotography #treespirits #noisyneighbors #noisyneighbors
Join Atala for a unique nature beings Zoom workshop. It`s taking place at the equinox, when the cosmic energies come into balance, opening up a portal line for entry into the nature beings realms... register at:
https://www.infinityfoundation.org/connecting-to-the-wood-wide-web
#equinoxevents #equinox2023 #equinox2023 #naturebeingsphotography #naturespirits
This is for all you folks who like to see how many faces you can find in a scene. Here`s a downed tree, exposed root, who exists in the Morton Arboretum bluebell dell. All kinds of critters - this dimension and others - find downed tree roots very hospitable and set up a home. I`m seeing a pixie smiling at us, a face with large eyes and a heart for a smile, a bird profile, a duck profile...and... A delightful scene that has surfaced in my photo file clean up 🙂 #mortonarboretum #facesintrees #treeroots #treefaces #naturebeingsphotography #naturespirits
I`m delighted that my photo was accepted into the juried Oxford Art Alliance Regional Photographers Show. It shows a cedar root sculpture of a contemplative cleric patting his faithful dog. The sculpture is located at the Cedar Graveyard, Rialto Beach, WA. The graveyard is an interdimensional sculpture garden, filled with images crafted by beings of other dimensions into the roots and trunks of giant sun-bleached cedar that have washed up on shore during Pacific Coast storms. https://atalatoy.com/product/pontiff-dog/
#rialtobeach #treesculpture #naturebeingsphotography #interdimensionalartists #oxfordartalliance
This photo has a story to tell, and it`s one a music lover will - love. This is a tree being sculpture of H.K. Hadley, the first conductor of the Tanglewood Music Festival, MA. He and benefactor Gertrude Smith would sit beneath this pine tree who lives at the edge of the outdoor central stage area. They would plan out the many details that would turn a private estate into a premier music venue. The tree being was so enamored of their dream that he carved their images into his trunk. My summer treat for my friends: the wonderful tree`s portrait study of the spirit of a great conductor - 20% off retail on all variations, from cards to metal prints - throughout August 2023. See more images and more story - plus enjoy the sale - at https://atalatoy.com/product/the-maestro/ #treebeings #treespirits #naturebeingsphotography #tanglewoodmusicfestival #berkshiresma