My work is an expression of the deep connection I feel with the natural world. When I’m on a photographic “walkabout”, I wait for the lines of separation to blur and settle into what becomes the images you’ll see on this website.
Before I even begin to find a photograph, I wait for all of the sensory experiences of the place I’m in to come together in its collective voice: the bird’s song, the stillness of the lake, the voice of the wind in trees, the rush of the creek, the distant movement in the clouds. When that happens, and I feel a part of it, I pick up my camera and get lost in the magic of bringing it into a photograph.
Minor White described this process:
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen."
The computer is my darkroom. Whether through abstract form, realism, color, infrared or black & white. I love to see it expressed through the camera's view. Sometimes there’s quite a bit of work to make that happen. Other times, barely anything at all. This all dances well with my 40 year practice of the timeless philosophy of Yoga & is based on the urge to merge with Spirit however it’s felt or defined.
Hence, my avocation The Spiritographer.
Rumi said,
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there."
I hope you’ll join me.