I started a career as a photographer many years ago. Then a combination of circumstances resulted in suspending this activity for more than a decade until my study of Zen and a trip to China served to revive it. I came back from China inspired to pay renewed attention to my local landscape.

When I see something that piques my interest I try to allow myself to be taken in by the process. There are multiple photographic issues related to camera exposure and one of the most critical issues for me is psychological: navigating the invisible barrier between the camera and what is beyond it. When that happens the objects stand out in relief not only as things in themselves, but as intimations of completeness in the world - where affinity is conjoined with expanse. When I go out with my camera there is always the possibility for such close encounters. Crafting an image that can convey something of that wonder is a second stage activity which requires similar close attention and immersion in the visual experience. If it is possible to notice the radiance of things as they are and convey something significant of that moment certainly acute attention and some moments of grace are a part of the process.

I often reluctantly describe myself as a nature photographer because that seems the simplest way to characterize my work. However, it also seems problematic because for me the natural world is not a world apart, but one that is all-inclusive. We are inescapably embedded in that other realm, and our own ostensibly different “human nature” is inconceivable without it. Photographing affords me a way of affirming and exploring my place in the single world we humans share with all manner of animate and inanimate matter.


Here is a link to another website, one of my favorites, which has included my work.
http://theawakenedeye.com/artisans-gallery/


In total acceptance almost everything becomes a revelation.
Frederick Sommer

The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust