Artist's Statement

I enjoy making and sharing images of the natural world and of the synthetic world within the natural environment. I want to make photographs that evoke an emotional response from the viewer, whether it be pleasure, curiosity, fascination, or something more dramatic and intense. Photography is a unique and fascinating art because it is a work of shared creation.

Photography is unique in its capacity to simultaneously document and challenge our perceptions of reality. The photographic image can correspond closely with an objective reality, but it also begins to create a new reality. As soon as I take a picture, I have made choices – subject and moment, framing, exposure, composition. The image produced by the camera is just the start as I then spend time on the computer, developing, refining, enhancing an image. In photography, we paint with light and dark and color and shape, and the image from the camera is the canvas, the raw pixels, upon which we work.

I believe that photography is an art form. One of the purposes of art is to challenge our way of seeing, to stimulate new and different ways of seeing what may be ordinary. There are layers of reality often hidden from our immediate view. This is especially so with photography of the natural world. In order to truly see, we must reveal that which is unseen.

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