Personal View

For as long as I remember I’ve always had an affinity with the natural landscape, and how weather changes the look and feel of it.

I grew up in a house on a hill, in a room with a view, and the Australian bush just a hop over the back fence. I never tired of that view. Each morning I’d watch the day awake, or sit transfixed as a storm crackled its way across the window. Hours would pass exploring the bush; all weather, any season, a place to discover and experience.

At a young age I became a Christian, believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. That faith in God grew steadily along side an increasing wonder of the natural world. I came to understand the world around me as created, not evolved. So when I discovered the world of photography years later, I finally had a tool to convey that relationship between the two. When a potter molds clay into a work of art, something of the potter is represented in the finished artwork. When I see the landscape I see God revealed in it.

It’s this that shapes my photographic vision. To reveal the landscape, and hopefully something of its creator, not just document it. From the observers point of view the elements of the landscape are generally unchanged, its the weather and light that is the key. For as light moves across the landscape it creates mood; revealing things seen and unseen in a moment of time. Revealing not only the physical, but also leaving an impression of the spiritual. As photographer I’m aiming to represent that connection of physical and spiritual into a two dimensional image so the viewer can experience it too. And so the journey continues...