Through photography, I have developed an intimate connection to the world around me. This is especially apparent when capturing the natural environment that surrounds my rural home in upstate New York. There I have discovered a timelessness when in nature’s most remote reaches, the place where a quiet stillness descends over me. I seek to relay the emotions I feel in these moments in this series of color photographs. My goal is to transcend the notion that a photograph is simply a moment in time. Instead, I aim to capture a photograph that translates more like a painting or drawing through the dreamlike interplay of color, light and shadow. The camera aids my quest by evoking both truth and illusion as I focus and blur the image I see through my lens enabling a heightened visual awareness beyond what the naked eye can see. And later when uploading the images I captured, I question if I was even there as the magic unfolds.The camera’s unique ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary through the kaleidoscopic refraction of light through its lens is paramount to my journey. It is this pairing of the ordered and the accidental that drives my vision. So too, I learn much about myself as I witness life’s evanescence while stalking nature up close. I realize I too am merely a transitory visitor. This awareness both motivates and challenges me to resist the pull forward or back as I strive to grasp the present with my lens.
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