A conceptual series, using several images that have been merged, using them much like a painter uses their palette. Capturing the quiet calm of Forest Bathing. A place where we can sit back dream and soak in the feeling of nature. I've always felt a special calm when you are alone except for the trees, plants, and the occasional breeze that whistles through the path. You're immersed in the natural world of nature.
Art became important to me at an early age with an interest in photography. I graduated in 1983 from the BFA Program in Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art which introduced him to the work and philosophies of influential artists: Irving Penn’s quality of light; Cartier-Bresson’s composition, use of space, and "the decisive moment”; Pete Turner, who felt that the transparency was not the end product, but just the beginning; and lastly Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of flowers and nature were a revelation, inspiring me to look closer at the hidden beauty of the natural world.
