“IMAGES”
“IMAGES”
Michael Bade - Artist Statement
The relationship between our natural landscape and the ways we live in it and shape it has long fascinated me. My work outside photography focused on urban architecture, engineering, and construction for businesses and major social institutions in densely inhabited cities. However, our cities, economic activities, and entire social environment all depend directly on the natural world. This intimate relationship crucially depends on preservation of the natural systems upon which we depend. In my photographs I try to capture the beauty of the world around us, to remind ourselves of the beauty and vibrancy of the world where we live and on which we depend
Robert Crowley - Artist Statement
Our perceptions are shaped by our experience. What we see is often just what our experience – who we are, what we have seen, what we have been – allows us to see. Light, shape, and tone take on increased importance when color is absent. Monochrome images force us to view things differently that we do in our day to day lives. And to open our eyes.
Gregory Jay - Artist Statement
My quest as a photographer is, in the words of poet Ezra Pound, “to make it new,” specifically to see the features and patterns of nature with freshly opened eyes. Now retired to Santa Fe, New Mexico, I’ve been trying to capture the light and landscape of Georgia O’Keeffe country and such parks in the Four Corners region as Monument Valley, Zion and Canyon de Chelly. I’ve tried a few times to capture the thrilling flight of the migratory birds at Bosque del Apache and found my creative energies excited by the challenge of White Sands and its spectacular plant life. While I am inspired by the classic photographic work of Alfred Steiglitz, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston, I have only followed occasionally their path into black and white modernism, as I have found the colors of rock, water, sky, and cloud to most awaken my vision.
Susan Kettering - Artist Statement
“Slow down you move too fast” those lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel’s 59th St. Bridge Song may have been written for me. Until the day I picked up a camera and began to see the world in new ways. The camera is the tool I use to create images that capture a moment of beauty, a moment of calm, a moment of happiness in my daily life. My primary area of focus, dance photography, is often done with an eye towards capturing someone else’s vision. Landscapes allow me to slow down and create images from my viewpoint. It is my hope that the images I created allow the viewer to see something of the world in a new way, to slow down and catch their breath. It is my hope that the images I create allow the viewer to see a sliver of the world in a new way, to slow down and catch their breath.
Malcolmn Ramsey - Artist Statement
Photography is the art of capturing the moment Heraclitus talked about almost 2700 years ago and preserving it. He said, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Photographs allow us to take that moment in time and memorialize it forever. The wind, the clouds, the sunrise and sunsets are all out of our control, but they are capturable. We must accept the concept of time is out of our control also, but a photograph freezes time.
Every photograph is unique. Even if someone takes the same image from the same place, it will be different. I would like to share some unique views that God has allowed me to see.
Many of our memories will fade with time, but photographs will last beyond our lifetime. In James 4:14, the Bible tells us that our lives are but a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Photographs allow photographers to show the uniqueness of our experiences and to tell a story. One cannot imagine the greatness of glaciers that have melted or the colorful hillside that was before a wildfire burned all the trees if it were not for photographs.
I pray that the images that I share with you will take you to places that you can enjoy and experience a pleasant memory.
Melissa Zucal - Artist Statement
Capturing natural light is the most important aspect in my photography either in the morning shadows on the dunes in White Sands or the golden hour at Bosque del Apache.
Iris Ranieri - Artist Statement
My Photographic work typically focuses on landscapes, taken locally or on travels within North America. I enjoy experiencing and capturing vast and powerful vistas and finding the drama in shadows, clouds, and sky. My more recent work at White Sands National Park captures the lyrical and sometimes haunting images of those vast landscapes. I try to evoke a feeling of quiet in my images both with the stark uninhabited landscape and with a soft impressionistic tonality. I want the viewer to feel both enveloped in the landscape and small within the vastness of the image.
Dale Armstrong - Artist Statement
Since becoming a professional photographer, my work has been seen in galleries in Colorado, New York, and Arizona. Some of my flora photography can be found in the book "Grassland Plant ID for Everyone...". My interests are macro, landscape, sports, wildlife, and street photography, making new observations, and discovering new narratives through the lens. Black and white photography is my preference because it allows an observer to experience and see form, texture, and composition.
