I feel with nature. A part of the energy.

Experiencing it as the air does as it floats through the canyon, as the bear does just “being” while enjoying a fresh sunrise light show. In my orchard when a mother bear meandered between my home and me, we just calmly looked each other in the eye and nodded in silent communication. Then she just turned around with her two cubs and went around the other side of the house. She and cubs resumed lounging, playing and munching apples while I watched and photographed (from back inside the house … I do respect that they are wild).

Hiking, I have ascended a mountain with a herd of Elk on a parallel ridge … just 80 feet apart doing our own thing. I have watched bobcats kill prey close by and play afterwards on a rock outcropping while I had been arching my arms around doing my Tai Chi. No confronting, no fear … just co-habitating.

This is what I am interested in conveying in my work. My hope is that through viewing the Life in my work people will become more interested in being in our wild places or at the least preserving them for further generations.