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About
the Photographer
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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. |
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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 pooped 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. |
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