ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2019 Submission

Driving out of Yosemite National Park the sun's morning rays were streaming across the forest. First I photographed the sunbeams through tall redwood trees. Turning 90 degree appeared a scene right out of a Bierstadt photograph. It's as if the stage was set the lights turned on and aimed at the main ballerina pirouetting in the light.

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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