When we make pictures we look at things that might otherwise not be considered dramatic enough to be photographed at all. Things like grains of sand, stones, leaves, clouds, water, seen for their own immense, particular beauty. Beyond “grand landscape” we look somewhat myopically at our world and we believe this reveals a new perspective upon the beauty of the natural world. We look for the amazing quality of simultaneous uniformity and uniqueness that makes every natural creation part of a family as well as an individual creation.

Since vision is contagious, we believe, people who live with our pictures of simply amazing natural things will be inspired by that beauty. This inspiration might even be largely subconscious, but then so much of what we are lies hidden within us as potential. We believe that by living with images that reflect the beauty of natural things people will experience a subtle chemical change in their make up, which happens when our brains appreciate beauty. Scientists call it retraining consciousness which involves the release of endorphins.

We call it natural beauty. We call it inspiration.

Our pictures are meant to represent the immense beauty of our singular planet, yet this beauty derives from a deeper nature, or natural law. The laws of creation provide the combination of uniformity and singularity that seems to embody our entire universe, from the smallest sub-atomic particle to the edges of the known universe or universes and beyond, perhaps.

A leaf, in all its spectacular symmetry is not exactly like any other leaf in the world, or probably any other world, if other “blue planets” like ours are out there, impossibly far away from us in time and space. And there likely are others, because the universe does not seem to make just one of anything.