View Artwork Thank you for this precious day, These gifts you give to me. My heart so full of love for you, Sings praise for all I see. My photography comes from my love for nature and all of the amazing things God has created. I look for patterns and structure, beautiful forms, interesting shapes, colors and juxtapositions. They are all around us, especially if you will take the time to look closely at the plants and flowers. I love to go for a long walk and take in all the foliage around me, looking for and capturing the slices of Holiness I see. Often, I find metaphors for the situations in my own life. The burst of color amidst drear, daisies co-mingling with roses, a single salvia bud on a coleus leaf. Somehow, that time in nature becomes a meditation, a conversation with the essence of life. The result is, hopefully, some wonderful photos. It always restores a bit of peace within. Oh sing for every mother’s love, for every childhood tear. Oh sing for all the stars above, a peace beyond all fear. A few years ago, I started putting lyrics from John Denver’s songs with my photos. At first it was just a way to express my love of nature and of sharing my love of John’s lyrics. Both touch my soul in a way that defy mere words. Then I decided to do an “official” collection -- 12 photos, all with lyrics that touch me in some way. I called the collection, “It Amazes Me.” Taken from a John Denver song, the title described perfectly how I felt when I snapped the photos -- I was amazed. Amazed and somehow humbled by the beauty of it all. The next year I did another collection, focused the lyrics a bit more on the spiritual side, and called it “Seeking Grace,” from a line in Rocky Mountain High. Indeed, it is what I do when I am out taking photos -- “seeking grace in every step (I) take.” Asking to know and understand the Holy around us and in us, to become one with all that He has made. I share my art in hopes that others might feel a touch of the grace that I feel, that it might make one pause to appreciate a fallen leaf, a new bud, a sunset. The song I quote here, "Falling Leaves," is one I sing or say almost every day. It sings in my heart anytime I walk in nature. John sums up my feelings pretty well with these words: "If I could have one wish on earth, of all I can conceive, 'twould be to see another spring, and bless the falling leaves." Contact Mev:: triadcom@fuse.net View Artwork