I am a very analytical person. My creativity flows from my need to understand and explain. I made a career of distilling processes to their essence and reconstructing them to be more efficient and productive. My approach to photography is an extension of my life’s work. I distill a scene to identify its processes and actors. I try to understand how the processes, generally the forces of nature and the forces of humans, have and are interacting with the actors to create the scene. I focus on one or more of the actors and compose a scene that shares a moment with them in an aesthetically pleasing way.
Actors may be humans or wildlife. They also may be the sun, the moon, a tree, a river, mountain or other object. Each image shares a unique moment showing how its actors and processes have, are, and sometimes even will impact each other. But I also want to entice the audience to linger and to find their own story. I want them to imagine themselves experiencing the sights, the sounds and the feeling as if they were there.
Snapping Turtle resting at the edge of the water. These turtles always look like they’re carrying a few million years of history on their backs — rugged, ancient, and perfectly adapted to the Chattahoochee River corridor.
Today was my first attempt to use Microsoft Copilot AI to use the picture and some text from me to create the blog text. It did an OK but not a great job. It is good for writing Alt Text.
Please visit my website, www.earthwatcher.us to see my collection of landscapes and wildlife.