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The world is a magnificent place, full of unexpected sources of beauty.
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| We are very fortunate to be living in it. |
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Despite all of the turmoil in the world, we look for our own unique experiences to fill our existence. Being truly alive requires our full focus and attention. |
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Our experiences can be beautiful or ugly depending on what our circumstances are and what we make of them. |
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| People respond to different aspects of the world in different ways. |
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Some people are stimulated by human made environments while others respond to nature.
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| Some people are stimulated by the clash! |
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I respond to nature. |
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| While I also respond to human environments, it is nature that really enthralls me! |
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| I am always grateful to be in the presence of natural beauty. Wilderness creates a sense of awe and wonder. Viewing nature, either from a high cliff with a vista, or with macro lens, provides me an endless source of visual inspiration. |
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| Through my photographs, I want to show you how wonderful the natural world is. |
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The camera lens allows me to focus, highlight, isolate, and perhaps exaggerate aspects of the world as I see it.
I try to put these elements into a visual form that communicates what I see to you.
Even though I try hard to simplify scenes of nature into shapes, color, contrast and design, I also want you to feel the wonder and power of the natural world beyond the frame.
I want you to catch your breath, be inspired and, with luck, share my experience of it.
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Sometimes scenes in nature remind me of famous paintings I've seen in art history classes that have made a vivid impression on me.
Each artist sees the world in a different way. By using techniques of craft, color and composition, artists try to find a visual language to express that way of seeing.
Some artists are successful pioneers of visual language, while others work beautifully with accepted ways of communication.
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What succeeds, or not, is the basis for lively debate.
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There is no escaping the fact that my photographic styles are eclectic. |
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I love the 19th century Hudson River School painters who depict grand landscapes, atmospheric weather and light. This famous Catskill Mountain view has been painted and sketched by Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey and Sanford Robison Gifford. I am also inspired by the photographic traditions of Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club. |
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| However, I also find impressionist painters, who create a ‘soft focus’ effect, exciting. In this photograph of a cherry tree blossoming in New York City, the technique of multi-exposure in the camera reduces the realistic details of the scene to color, texture and form. |
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Abstract painters make canvases that are purely about color, shapes and texture. They aren't trying to represent anything in the natural world. Yet abstract forms and patterns do exist in nature. An example can be seen on this lichen covered rock face along a
trail in
Colorado.
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I am grateful to the pioneers of visual language. |
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I learn from the different painting and photographic styles they create. Not only do they demonstrate unique ways of perception that sharpen my vision, they show me how to be even more alert to the wonders of the world around me. |
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Our world is full of exciting places and things that exist in changing weather and light. We are fortunate there are so many ways to see it all.
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My photographs are organized, by subject, into nine portfolios of twelve. Each image can be seen enlarged in a series of individual gallery panels. Click Portfolios. |
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The images on this page, and other pages in this site, can also be seen enlarged in a series of individual gallery panels. Click Site Photos
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