A Winter Walk Acrylic Print

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A winter’s hike near home in Columbia Maryland. James Rouse created a planned community named Columbia in Maryland in 1967. Part of the plan was to have seven villages featuring small shopping areas that had a grocery store, a few restaurants, sometimes a gas station, bank, and liquor store. The other main feature was hundreds of paved walking trails like this one- a few are around three small lakes, many are interconnected. Other features were also part of Rouse’s plan, a diverse group of residents by class and race, a thriving arts community and interfaith centers.

My focus has always been on the natural world and its beauty whether it be a dragonfly, flower, frog, or tree bark. When viewing our world, I look at how people and architectural structures fit into it now and in the past. Do they coexist with their natural surroundings or look out of place? To that end, what compels me to take photos is, not only our natural world, but the history we created within it, thus combining my two loves of nature and history. It is my intention that my photographs of landscapes and architecture, as well as close ups of nature and historical artifacts, give us a sense of the world around us. As a photographer and naturalist, I continually search for the obscure, as well as the obvious, as I believe without...