ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2019 Submission
Flashlight in hand walking towards Pine Key Lake at twilight the light shines back. I freeze intuitively knowing I'm walking straight towards an alligator. Golden rays pass though the pine trees; I race towards the lake's edge. He slides off the shore gliding across the lake in the morning fog.
Every time I go out to photograph nature I really find myself going within. Photography is my way of communing with the Universe, Source or God... whatever one may call that divine essence.
It has been said that the camera reflects both ways. As an artist, every vision I capture through my camera's lens is a reflection of my heart being touched by the soul of wild places and their inhabitants. Like a meditation of light--color, texture, structure, pattern, composition--it awakens an inner peace and knowingness. With each image, it is my desire that viewers are inspired to love, cherish and protect the fragile beauty and wonder that is nature as they reconnect with that inner peace.
My philosophical approach to photography and life is that we are all one, we are all interconnected. It is this sense of oneness that I intimately feel in each soul portrait I photograph, whether it be a landscape, bird, animal, tree or sunrise/sunset.
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