The seeming capture of a photograph is merely a beginning to a fuller relationship.

Had I imagined the implications sooner I might have quadrupled my efforts to explore the experience of life from 35mm to digital and back again. But that is hindsight begging to rewrite history; as it is, much of my early work has since been lost – barely handfuls remain. But as I have the capacity to embellish into abstraction my subsequent image studies, I will most likely leave much unresolved imagery once my time has moved on.

In my investigations with a camera I have a range of concerns; but rather than broach all my malarkey with words I prefer the viewer apply the personalism that touches most their own unique engagement with the subjects I display – even that I might sin occasionally by complicating the viewers unique event with my own titles and associations. What I can say is that intuition guides my finger; and the shutter clicks because inwardly something outside has captivated the poetry connecting us.

My collection is very varied although in recent years much study of Nature has made bookmaking the most practical manner of exposé – even if I could afford mounting and framing I would be left with a mountain range to gather dust and absorb space I might never manage.

Some of these works were intended as examples of natural circumstances – the elements effect on the intimate particulars of a field, stream or forest’s floor. At other times man-made marvels become subject - when an animal, insect, human being or occasional apparition is not staged in the lens. Whatever the criteria of the moment presented, if I felt some necessity I pressed and registered. And there are more than a few images that held much beyond what I thought I saw… those are mysteries even to this day and contemplative proof that ‘more’ exists – if only for my own vetting.

Again a carousel is provided but the books host much more. One set of volumes (twelve books) has its own page here: Temporal and Timeless Motifs. And the SHARE LINKS of three more examples, exclusively filled with nature photographs, are listed below.

Note: The photographs that made up the exhibit, The Library Show, were all placed in similar frames; only one impression was made of these photos and therefore they are exclusive originals. Generally, all the photographic imagery that I have printed for framing exists as unique objects and not duplicated. And that practice is extended to the digital imagery as well - ONE impression only.