I've lived among these lands for over twenty years.

Kinderhook Creek rushes in April and trickles in August. I know the forest of Dyken Pond in four seasons of light.

When the call came for artists and poets to celebrate Rensselaer County's conserved spaces? I nearly broke an ankle running to respond. Months later, my art is a large part of the anthology Writing the Land: Rensselaer County, New York. Artists were asked to submit 4-5 images. My 12 of 16 submissions made the cut.

I made these images the way I make all my work — without chasing or staging. Patient. Present. I photograph land the way I photograph a wolf: as if she has something to teach us. My job is to wait for the lesson to appear.

If this collection hits different for you, here's why. Canvas textures and light leaks are layered here, not as effects, but as evidence — proof that a human being stood here, paying attention to life as art. And nature played with me, the messenger.

Conservation isn't an abstraction to me.

It's the reason the copper-winged pennant dragonfly still hunts above Dyken Pond -- flying forward, backward, sideways, and upside down, drone-like because her skills inspire their technology. When used for good, her inspiration gives us a new point of view. One uniquely hers. Protect the land, and it gives something back worth witnessing.

Each $40 book purchase goes directly to managing and acquiring more Hudson Taconic Lands. Artists and poets received a small participation stipend; the rest protects the acreage. That's the right order of things.

The first 5 prints below are full-page in the 10x10 book. The next seven are accents. The final four were made in the same spirit, on the same grounds — available only direct from me.
Buy the book to tuck on a shelf, or display my conservation art, large and bold. I will always support and protect this NY land, even from my home in Alaska. Your ownership of my work does, too.