NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AND OTHER IMAGES

If one can define art as a creative activity resulting in a visual representation of imaginative designs, then making a photograph can be an art form.  This form can be an image to convey emotions, relationships or ideas.  Photographic equipment and technique are mere extensions of the creative process to produce this image.

In his photographs, Andy has tried to capture the exquisite details that are transiently or never seen, whether they be vivid colors, or confluence of design and function.  If, for instance, he photographed a flower as he initially saw it, the flower would be small and without detail.  If he enlarges the image (thereby a macro), the details are more evident and are seen more clearly.  Then one takes time to look at nature more carefully and to 

see things not really seen before.

Yet macros are not Andy’s only interests.  Photographs can record a moment in time, features of the environment,  unusual colors, fascinating contours that can be stored for all posterity and brought up again and again to enhance memory and stimulate emotions.

But the quest continues, to produce an image that is beyond the ordinary  -  one that you look  at and say  -  “Wow”.

Andy is a physician, with a private practice in internal medicine. Nature and the great outdoors have always been major interests. In later years, he has expanded these interests to capturing their magic on film. Though from the practice of medicine to nature photography may seem like a quantum leap, both the study of medicine and practice of photography unveil an appreciation of nature and all its mysteries.

At this time in Andy’s life, capturing the beauty and mysteries of nature and its environment on film is paramount.  Of particular interest is probing with a camera the smaller macro secrets that one ordinarily doesn’t see with his eyes.  Use of different lenses, lighting techniques, and other parameters infinitely extends the photographic possibilities.