About
About the Photographer:
Greg Summers is a nature photographer interested in everything from landscapes to wildlife, flowers and even a few portraits. The area around Boulder, Colorado is his extended studio and provides a bounty of fresh material with new day.
Greg’s work has been featured in publications nationwide. He has been featured in both Delta and United Airlines flight magazines, has images in the Yoganonda calendar and numerous photography books, and has won many photography contests.
Many of his images are on display in galleries and commercial settings, including The Artwalk Gallery in the South Santa Fe area of Denver, Lowery Air Force Base, The National Center for Atmospheric Research, Photo Craft Imaging and the GrafXGroup to name just a few.
Greg’s Philosophy:
I shoot nature images from landscapes to wildlife, flowers and even a few portraits. In truth I shoot anything which captures my eye, particularly my cats. Of course they now recognize my camera and run for cover. The area around Boulder, Colorado is my home, and the focus of most of my images. I had no idea when I began shooting that would become so passionately involved. 
It has taught me a new way to look at the world, to feel its natural rhythms and and to appreciate the beauty that surrounds me but seemed invisible before I looked through my viewfinder.
In early May of 1999, I was walking through the families of Canadian Geese goslings at Sawhill ponds, a wild life refuge east of Boulder. I snapped away at the little fuzzballs . Then through the telephoto lens, I noticed one of the babies had fallen over. The gosling began to twist and turn. I knew in an instant the baby was caught on something. I had to go to the end of a barbed wire fence and back again. All the while I watched as the parents and siblings squawked and paced. As I approached, the family backed off and down the pond embankment.
When I knelt down, I saw a large dirty fishhook caught in the babies foot. It was ripping a hole in the web. I gently placed a gloved hand on the small body to hold it still and threaded the hook back through the hole. For a moment, the baby lay there as I studied the web to determine the extent of the damage. When I took my hand away, the gosling popped up as though nothing had happened. All I saw was the bouncing yellow ball as he/she skittered down the embankment where the family welcomed him back. 
One by one by one, they waddled into the water and swam away. I sat there and watched, tears welling in my eyes. Then I stood up and tore almost fifty feet of fishing line from the grass. Something wonderful and compelling touched me and changed the way I see the world. I hope you see it in my photography.
Now, I produce very large images with multiple exposures and stitching – it is a fascinating way to relate to the subject. It’s a totally different way of seeing – of dissecting and constructing images from landscapes to flowers
You can See some of my newer images on my FaceBook Page… Just click the FaceBook icon at the top of any page.