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I love hiking and being in the outdoors. Frankly, I even enjoy hikes that are strenuous. The hiking and physical part of getting to the locations that I photograph adds to the richness of the experience and clears my mind, setting the stage for the creative process to begin.  With that in mind here is an image I created when everything finally came together. And here is a Iphone photograph of the trail I hiked 6 times over 2 days seeking the right light.

I am back in off the road for a few days to sort through images from several of the shoots I have been on. Here is an image from the Cumberland Mountains.

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Just before sunrise in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. The greatest thing about my career as a nature photographer has to be that sense of awe and wonder that washes over me when I come across a scene like this in nature.

“We can never have enough of nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn…”- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing quite like hiking a trail in the still cool air of morning. Here is an image from an early morning hike that I made this past spring in north Alabama.

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her … ~ Claude Monet

By stripping away the familiar characteristics of color, black and white photography of nature reveals something new. It highlights a different aspect of the relationships between shapes, form, contrast and composition in the natural world.

I recently added a black and white gallery to the website you can view it HERE

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“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

Most of my photography features almost no photoshop manipulation. Usually just cleanup of dust and slight contrast and saturation adjustments to get a result similar to what I used to achieve with film. This image however, is purely from my imagination….

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For day three of the challenge a look at winter details.

 

For day two of the challenge we will look at some close-ups of daisies I took during one of my morning walks a couple miles from my house.

For a fun experiment I will be posting three images each day for three days. These were from a recent trip to the Redwoods Parks in California.