Whitney Mikkelsen - Nature Photographer

08/15/2025

I’m back home after a while of not being back home. It seems that all the flowers and bloomed making this part of the world very colorful right now. Look up to the sky for peace.

01/31/2025

Breathe in comfort. Breathe out peace.

01/01/2025

The trick is to not take meditation too seriously. Hold no goals or resolutions but get to know yourself more deeply. Slowing down, melting, and recognizing your fears helps. What are your fears? Can you sit and watch them melt away? This is the work of being human. Nothing else matters. Thank you for breathing at the same moment. We are here together. In breath, out breath. Breathe with me.

03/09/2024

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After years of living with intense pain, I'm finding it challenging to rediscover myself after my pain has lessened. We take on different personas to help deal emotionally with what our bodies experience. This is a trauma response. Is it possible to grieve the absence of physical pain after living under it for what felt like a lifetime? I miss my slow, meditative life that came to me with pain; because of pain. I miss not having strength to worry about what people think of me. I miss not worrying or thinking about my right foot: 'are my toes pointing forward?' I had thought some of that would stay part of me, but l'm finding that I need to create space to slow down. Vanity over my walking has returned and I'm saddened by this. Take it one fern at a time. Unfurling quietly and creatively. These are thoughts that I never expected. Grieving pain is surprising to me. I will always have an intimate relationship with pain; it's not going anywhere. But the last year, under severe pain and stress, I created art and wrote about 130 stories because I was unable to move comfortably, or at times, at all. Unexpected sadness comes over me thinking about the past year. Sad that I had to experience it, but also sadness over the changes in life’s tempo.

02/17/2024

02/13/2024

Yes, I do have a very cool website. As well as the most wonderful web designer ever!!! Charlotte Collins! Go see what she’s done. https://whittierphotography.art/

01/07/2024

So looking forward to showing . Bringing pieces over this afternoon for curator Please come to the opening Jan 25 6-8pm. Showing with See you there.

12/27/2023

As we turn our focus towards the light; may we hold peace in our hearts.

12/24/2023

Merry Christmas. May peace prevail.

12/22/2023

I didn’t know that aloe bloomed at all until a few years ago, but of course it blooms. Given the right environment and care, we all bloom over and over and over again. Breathe in the blooms, breathe out the letting go.