ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2023 Submission - Photography Category

I have carried a camera and journal book with me for over 35 years, looking for vignettes that give me pause, an old window, a rusted obsolete fire escape, a flickering hotel sign, an empty field, or a breath-taking vista. These can all be visions that help me to express my feelings, energy, and thoughts onto the world. So much beauty, on so many levels, is taken from us on a daily basis. Much of it we do to ourselves of our own free will. In America, especially, we tend to stucco over or tear down our past and replace it with subpar, soulless, hackneyed structures. My intention is to artistically preserve these little slices. We should not forget these nostalgic series of art dreams. I display them here for our memories and for our children's memories.

As Jack Kerouac said: I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder...