Prelude in a Major Key Photograph - Limited Edition of 8

I was born in 1946 in New York City. I have lived in many places in the United States and also in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. I currently reside in Greenwich Connecticut. For almost forty years, I enjoyed a rewarding career in teaching and school administration. My introduction to photography was at the age of seven when my grandmother - an avid photography enthusiast - gave me my first camera, a Kodak box camera. Photography has been a passion ever since, and even more so since retiring from education. Today, I find new visions, perspectives, and creative energy coming to fruition in my photography. I produce a range of fine art photography with my main interests in nature and landscapes, especially in New England and in the American southwest. I am also interested in florals and in architecture, particularly buildings with strong geometric content in both the natural and constructed environment. I consider photography - indeed, all art - to be a conversation between artist and viewer, a kind of shared experience of creating a vision. Photography is unique in its capacity to simultaneously document and challenge our perceptions of reality. I agree with the writings of Viktor Schklovsky (1893-1984), a prominent member of the Russian Formalist School of literary criticism. For Schklovsky, the purpose of art is to make the familiar unfamiliar (ostranenie = “defamiliarization”) in order to view things in new ways, to perceive (or to create) layers of reality hidden from our immediate view.