The Living World

Whether amusing or challenging, familiar or disturbingly alien, the creatures of this world inspire a certain joy when I see them, and I want to record an image of the moment and space in which we interact. In photographing them my goal is to capture not only the essential mysteries of their beauty, but also the spirit of living and being that is unique to each.

BACKSTORY OF AN IMAGE: Before a hurricane back in the 1950s and progressive global warming, locals describe a low island once popular for recreation that lay just beyond this Chesapeake Bay lagoon. The island is gone. Erosion wore it down, with the tides spreading its disassembled existence inside the lagoon. I was shooting the wonderful abstract pattern of striations of sandbars that formed in the lagoon by an unusually low tide during a supermoon, when an American Bald Eagle - wings, talons and tail fully outspread - landed, center stage, with infinite grace and beauty. Thus, THE EAGLE IS LANDING (below) came into being.