“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Smoky Mountains is one of the most magnificent areas in the country. Despite The Smoky Mountains’ awe inspiring vistas I seem to be drawn to photograph the intimate landscapes as much as anything. I created this image while hiking and exploring along the edge of a stream late one afternoon
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir
This image was created while exploring the structure of this plant on a hillside one morning. I take as much joy in these macro explorations as I do in my larger scale nature photographic treks.
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“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” – Richard P. Feynman
This Spring I was sitting at the table, in our breakfast room, and looking out the window at the dogwood tree which grows just outside. I stared at the tree for several minutes and all at once I grabbed my camera and went outside to make this image. I find that the creative process works best for me after a few minutes of quietly contemplating my subject.
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I climbed a short steep bank and pushed through some bushes and the expanse of Texas Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush took my breath away.
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“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of my favorite ways to explore nature is on my belly in the dew at dawn!!
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake
Why do I photograph nature? I find great joy in discovering moments such as this in nature, and great satisfaction in sharing them. Maybe I can make someone’s day a little better as a result of sharing an image.
This morning while at one of my favorite sunrise spots, I considered a number of compositions. Then I decided to stand under the tree I was next to and use the overhanging limbs in the image.
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One of our clients sent us this picture of an installation of one of our images as an ” around the corner” installation in a healthcare facility. It is on frosted Plexi and it is 8 feet high by 16 feet long! We think it is a creative way to approach using art for a corridor space.
“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds
a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
~Claude Monet
This year’s fall season winds quietly down along the Little River. I love the quiet time that I spend alone in nature creating images at this time of year. Things slow down and my image making becomes more contemplative.
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Cosmos flowers are some of my favorite photographic subjects.
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