Greetings to all my followers and wishing everyone the best in the New Year. Much appreciation for those of you that collected my artwork, or showed appreciation by joining my newsletter. I've updated parts of my website, and will be shooting and updating throughout the year. I'm working on expanding a style I developed with short focus, that lends itself to a more abstract view of the world I'm looking at. The images I'm working on are nothing but bridges that take you from an often recognizable world to another. This is a work in progress, you will see some of it on my site, or at festivals as I explore more of this concept.

Having recently traveled to Santa Fe, NM, I liked the adobe buildings, in the first snow of the season, with clean lines, and subtle tones. The view here in the image above is from my hotel room, with an abstract quality, I like the way the colors blend together, creating a sense of the world where quiet is imagined.
Below, while sitting on the beach in Jamaica, I photographed the happenings going on from the viewpoint of the camera, keeping the foreground in focus, while softening the distance to create a sense non reality, where you can imagine what is taking place. Photographic art should not be a literal translation of the subject matter in front of the camera, but allow one to explore without boundaries the content of the image. I was taken with Georgia O'Keeffe's work at the museum in Santa Fe. She was a master at just those types of explorations, taking an ordinary landscape and transforming it into something else, that the viewer could abstract a different feeling from what was imagined in front of her canvas.