NORTH COUNTRY – Portfolio Number Six – Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan. Photograph taken 2002. Talk about surprises, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan holds many long, sandy shorelines, light houses, thick northern forests and beautiful waterfalls. This image is of the Upper Tahquamenon Falls, taken on a crisp autumn morning.
BIDING MY TIME – Portfolio Number Six – Port Hood Provincial Park, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Photograph taken 2002. Coastal sand dunes are fragile ecological systems. Fences act as guardians against erosion. Waiting to serve both man and nature. The image quiet and sedate yet resolute.
THE EDGE OF APPREHENSION – Portfolio Number Six – St. Lawrence Bay, near the village of Capstick, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Reversed image. Photograph taken 2002. A surrealistic interpretation of man’s primordial link with the sea.
THE DREAM OBSCURA – Portfolio Number Six – Near the village of Meat Cove, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Photograph taken 2002. Meat Cove is a remote and spectacular scenic area. Eagles soar above coastal cliffs whales frolic in the waters below. The image is an expression of a deeply felt memory awash with time.
THE SENTINEL – Portfolio Number Six – Canso, Nova Scotia Reversed image. Photograph taken 2002. Canso was founded in 1605, one of Nova Scotia’s earliest settlements. When in April 1912 the news of the sinking of the titanic first reached the mainland of North America it was received via telegraph at Canso, Nova Scotia. This image was taken at the now abandoned telegraph building. It stands as a monument to history.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATURE – Portfolio Number Six – Grave’s island Provincial Park, Chester Nova Scotia. Photograph taken 2002. This simple image depicts the harmonious, balance existing within nature. A one minute exposure was required.
NOCTURNAL TIDES – Portfolio Number Six – Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Reversed image. Photograph taken 2002. If one equates the night to dreams and dreams to passageways, those passageways produce a conduit from which creative consciousness flows. Nothing speaks to the cycles of time or the rhythms of nature as do the ocean’s tides.
COASTAL BOUNDARIES – Portfolio Number Six – Minas Channes, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. Photograph taken 2002. This image was taken from Cape d’Or looking across the Mias Channel to Cape Split in the distance. Cliffs rise to over 500 feet along the rugged Minas Basin coastline. The Bay of Fundy features the world’s highest tides varying some 50 feet. This area offers great scenic diversity. In many ways this image captures the physical essence of Nova Scotia.
THE DANCE OF SIVA – Portfolio Number Six – Acadia National Park, Schoodie Point, Maine. Reversed image. Photograph taken 2002. Siva (pronounced Shiva) is the Hindu deity of creation and destruction. The image speaks of the birth of land, it’s struggle against the sea, the cycles of life and the kinetic power of nature.
THE LAND OF SYLVAN – Portfolio Number Six – Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan. Photograph taken 2002. One of my continuos themes deals with trees or woodlands and the ecological environment they help to support. The image is of the Lower Tahquamenon Falls and surrounding woodland.
