Where Nature and Humans Merge:

Autumn in Eastern Oregon in Monochrome

I grew up in a lumber mill owned logging town in the Cascade Mountains of southern Central Oregon surrounded by National Forests and incredible natural resources. The merging of nature and industry provided beautiful and dramatic imagery, inspiring my appreciation of both.  There are so many emotions and rhythms, so many contrasts and symmetries in natural landscapes.  Those emotions and rhythms are altered or magnified by human interactions with the land.  There is both roughness and beauty in those influences.

Like most landscape photographers I am influenced by Ansel Adams’ iconic photography and conservation. I also greatly admire Robert Adams’ work and conservation, The New West collection in particular.

Unlike Ansel Adams or Robert Adams, with Where Nature and Humans Merge, I endeavor to show that human interaction with nature isn’t always bad.  Where people have shaped or changed or adapted nature to their use and purposes it can be beautiful but there is also a loneliness or longing for what is gone.  Just as when humans grow or change, we reminisce the memories of the past.   This is a growing collection.