Gulls Perched on a Lighthouse Acrylic Print

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The lighthouse tour I took by small craft was 6 hours, maybe a little too long, and took us on more than 6 rivers in Maryland including the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac river mouth. We photographed birds as well as lighthouses. Of the 12 people on the boat, my two friends and I were the only ones with cameras. The rest were using cell phones so photos of birds like this would be impossible to capture. While cell phones are great to use, and I often use them for photos, I could never get this kind of detail far away.

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...