greetings .....

the purpose of this site is to share images, thoughts, ideas, feelings ..... and evoke responses to those images. one of my impressions of landscape photographers is that they tend to attempt to awe the viewer with majestic panoramas of places the viewer may or may not have visited, but at least has some familiarity with. I, on the other hand, strive to suggest a sense of intimacy between the viewer and the subject of the image. many times the image will be one that the viewer has passed by often but perhaps has not looked at it in a manner that I may present. the intimacy begins with that familiarity.

this image began with a quiet walk by myself up Fay Canyon in Sedona, 6 a.m., Easter morning. all was quiet except for a few birds and the breeze in the trees. it was my first visit to this canyon, and was quickly enveloped within ... losing all sense of time, place, purpose .... simply being. after awhile, I reached not the end, but for that morning, for me, the end ... I climbed up this rock face and finally turned around to view the morning arrival. this image is that view, as I turned around and saw the sunlight waking the giants of Sedona. I no longer felt alone ...........