Piece description from the artist
One of my favorite series of photographs that I have been working on for the last number of years is my close-up images of ICE. There are so many varieties of natural ice during the winter months: on ponds, streams, puddles, bird-baths, etc. Depending on the temperature and location, ice can be a perfect frozen pallet with endless varieties of patterns. It can also become an iris into what lies below, with air bubbles, leaves and other flora all frozen into a magic window of endless possibilities and complex abstract forms. This image was taken in a stream that had frozen solid over night leaving the frozen patterns of the once fast moving water.
Having trained on a large format view camera in the 1970’s where each photograph takes 10 minutes or more to compose and shoot, I learned to slow down, look carefully, and pay attention. This photographic process taught me to carefully observe and then photograph the complexity of nature and everyday objects and capture the subtleties of shape, color, shadows and light and other intriguing visual features, that might otherwise be overlooked. The resulting images make the viewer look carefully as well while asking questions, such as: What is it? How far away am I? What time of day is it? Is it a real or a manipulated image? I assure you that all these images are real, unmanipulated, and represent a moment in time preserved through my camera.
While I am primarily self-taught, I have learned a great deal over the last three decades from fellow photographer friends and colleagues and a few photography courses . Over the years, I have also been influenced by a wide variety of gifted, dedicated, and inspirational photographers and artists.
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