By Scott Shephard

Lines, shapes, patterns and textures. Viewed up close and in black and white, that’s what’s become of this beautiful cypress tree, one of many in a grove of cypress trees at the Overland Park Arboretum. But how does this make you feel? Good art (including a good photograph) should elicit some kind of emotion, so I’m told.

Am I more a technician and less an artist if I dwell on what I want you to see rather than on what I want you to feel? Don’t answer that. It’s rhetorical. Plus, I’ve learned that what you see and what you might feel are far beyond my control. And that’s OK. It’s a bit of a mystery and is at the heart of the pleasure I take in sharing a photo with you from time to time.

Canon R5 1/40 sec f/5.0 ISO 200