Moving Landscapes

Hard to drive and photograph at the same time, though it can be done, or I should say could be done.

Long before I was using a car phone, yes I said 'car phone', not cell phone, I was using a little point and shoot camera to document life, a 'snapshot' camera, if you will. I was driving up California's famed Highway 1 to visit a friend in the Santa Cruz mountains, as I was driving I saw this beautiful tree on the hill, I grabbed my little camera and just shot the picture out the driver's side window...

and a lifetime series was born.

I continue to photograph, though not while driving, though I have enlisted friends to drive while I photograph, the train works well and....

These types of images serve my love of nature and natural beauty, though I don't usually photograph landscapes. I appreciate them and understand that they are their own art form and with their own aptitude.

Moving Landscapes match my love of abstract impressionism, movement, color, and even perhaps meaning. An exhibit at the previous Whitney Museum of Mark Rothko's painting literally had me weeping and changed my 'eye'.