Artist & Alpinist, Renan Ozturk
Awakenings. This, and endless variations like it, is what each morning reveals. To the day I say, “Bring it on!” Can you blame me? (Taken with Instagram)
Fuel to Goldstream Park: $6 Water bottle: $14 419 m of vertical: 473 calories Catch-up time with a friend: priceless. (Taken with Instagram at Finlayson Summit)
Seek higher ground. Let not your thoughts be bound by the confines of four walls. Listen for the music of your soul playing in syncopation with your heartbeat. Up here, the horizon is infinite. Up here, there are no limits. (Taken with Instagram at Finlayson Summit)
Pretty in red. When you first walked into the shop, you played it cool, pretended not to notice. Then you went back. For a pick. A string. A capo. But really, it was to admire the curves of the body, the lines of the neck. You’re hopelessly taken. So, what’s your next move? What’s it gonna be? (Taken with Instagram)
The seeker. (Taken with Instagram at Salish Sea)
Salish Sea. Turning into Active Pass, Galiano Is. to starboard, backlit Mayne Is. to portside. (Taken with instagram)
Blue flowers redux, new setting. Challenging, beautiful rewarding hike up Mt. Finlayson, Victoria (Langford), BC.
Hit pause. Thoughts fly, but words are very unnecessary. And just surrender to the moment. (Taken with Instagram at Beacon Hill Park)