There are few old growth forests left in Europe, and not really any untouched wilderness at all. But sometimes on my wanderings through our forests I come upon an area that looks surprisingly wild and almost untouched, where a combination of rocks, mossy trees, undergrowth and fallen branches create an atmosphere that seems almost primeval.…
Ah! what pleasant visions haunt meAs I gaze upon the sea!All the old romantic legends,All my dreams, come back to me.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Trees need not walk the earthFor beauty or for bread;Beauty will come to themWhere they stand.Here among the children of the sapIs no pride of ancestry:A birch may wear no less the morningThan an oak.Here are no heirloomsSave those of loveliness,In which each treeIs kingly in its heritage of grace.Here is but beauty’s wisdomIn which…
In dense fog, my walking companions often bemoan the lack of a view. I, however, treasure the rare moments when the onslaught on my senses is highly reduced.When I see very little, but vague shapes and fragments. When I hear nothing, but my own steps. When I smell only the moist air itself.It’s like walking…
These images are part of an ongoing series of multiple exposure photographs that I’ve taken in my local forest. They are visual excerpts of a path that I have walked at least 200 times a year for the last 10 years. Yet, depending on the season, weather, light, my mood and mindset, I still uncover new views that…
These images are part of an ongoing series of multiple exposure photographs that I’ve taken in my local forest. They are visual excerpts of a path that I have walked at least 200 times a year for the last 10 years. Yet, depending on the season, weather, light, my mood and mindset I still uncover new views that…
Because autumn is always gone too soon and every year there is one autumn less to live for… Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes…
The Felsenmeer is located on the Felsberg in the low mountain range Odenwald. It is a rocky landscape of dark grey quartz diorite created through woolsack weathering, which are layered across a hillside between old beech trees. The Felsenmeer is supposedly a nature conservation area. It is part of the Natura 2000 protection network of…
Spring feels different this year. It is late. The nights are still cold and nature seems reluctant to wake from it’s winter slumber. It seems like a mirror to the ongoing restrictions on society. The sense of renewal that spring invokes feels deceptive this year. The death of my dog last month still puts a…
Sometimes the books you read are so strong in imagery that they become part of your internal landscape and remain with you for a very long time. Lovecraft’s novella had that kind of impact on me and even though its setting is in arctic regions, these craggy alpine mountain peaks evoked this story in my…