ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
The landscape photographs or 'photoscapes' on this web site are an attempt to record my perceptions of the often fleeting and ever-changing beauty of the mid-western landscape.
This beauty has been captured in glimpses that I have recorded in pixels.
Moments of grand beauty and stillness that resonate with me and will hopefully pull you, the viewer, into my photographic compositions inviting you to become a part of the scnery that you are viewing. These images are frozen, captured in time, scenes of beauty that are, unfortunately, all-too-quickly disappearing: being bulldozed, cemented over, made into parking lots, condos, soccer fields, and strip malls, once gone never to return.
Examples include majestic corn, bean, and hay fields, wide open spaces that so many of us take for granted. We pass by them in our cars on our way to work each day. Quickly these fields are disappearing, succumbing to the relentless greed of developers and our ever-growing need to sprawl.
Not only are these wild spaces soothing, peaceful retreats from our hectic lives both visually and mentally, they are also vast ecosystems for wild life: wide open spaces for many birds and wild animals that we, as Iowans, hold dear. These spaces are the sanctuaries for these ecosystems the protectors and the maintainers of an environmental equilibrium that we, as a planet, need to survive.
This beauty has been captured in glimpses that I have recorded in pixels.
Moments of grand beauty and stillness that resonate with me and will hopefully pull you, the viewer, into my photographic compositions inviting you to become a part of the scnery that you are viewing. These images are frozen, captured in time, scenes of beauty that are, unfortunately, all-too-quickly disappearing: being bulldozed, cemented over, made into parking lots, condos, soccer fields, and strip malls, once gone never to return.
Examples include majestic corn, bean, and hay fields, wide open spaces that so many of us take for granted. We pass by them in our cars on our way to work each day. Quickly these fields are disappearing, succumbing to the relentless greed of developers and our ever-growing need to sprawl.
Not only are these wild spaces soothing, peaceful retreats from our hectic lives both visually and mentally, they are also vast ecosystems for wild life: wide open spaces for many birds and wild animals that we, as Iowans, hold dear. These spaces are the sanctuaries for these ecosystems the protectors and the maintainers of an environmental equilibrium that we, as a planet, need to survive.