An EnglishMan in Castlerigg Photograph - Limited Edition of 30

"Nature photography is kind of a prayer…expectation and wish for whatever this beautiful country should have been and still can be.…….amidst the uncertainty, the wars, and the non ending violence and self absorbed truths also stand the innocence and beauty of the forests, the earth, the streams and the flowers. But they stand embarrassed, lost and blushing from shame waiting for their prayer to be fulfilled". Dubi Roman Born in Haifa in 1957, Dubi Roman's art is deeply rooted in his family's spiritual history and geographical location. Roman's family has lived in the holy city of Safed for five generations. Safed, nestled in the mountains of Upper Galilee, is one of the four sacred Jewish cities, and was once the spiritual center of Jewish life. Despite being plagued by earthquakes, which have raised the city several times, the faithful have always flocked to Safed and still continue to do so today. A cobble-stoned town where the orthodox synagogues co - exist with offbeat artists' studios and galleries it is where his grandfather before him, Yitzchak Roman was a famous artist and Sculptor. Although Dubi lives in the heart of this spiritual city, he constantly looks to nature for sustenance and searches for his own spiritual solace outside the city walls, amongst the landscape of Israel's, trees, fields and flowers. Inspired by Impressionist painting, Roman developed his own unique photographic processes and techniques, an impressionistic way of expressing his own vision of nature through photography. "The technique I use - based on multiple exposures, changing planes of focus, soft focusing and scattered light - gives a romantic and impressionistic effect, coloured in the colours of dreams. It became my path of expressing myself and a way of exposing my heart," he explains. Roman's Impressionistic photo images were created solely in the field. No filters were used and no lab or computer manipulation was utilized. More info and pictures may be found at the artist's web site as well as in many internet art galleries.