1908_7202 Forest
I brought the 8mm fisheye into the forest for the first time. No, the trees weren't quite this tall... but the sun really is a star! Reality really didn't enter the equation; I was after the feel of the forest more than a literal depiction.
While camping and photographing, I read The Overstory by Richard Powers, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel about trees: "Something genuinely new, in the way it decenters the human as the source of all meaning and value", according to Michael Pollan on the rear cover blurb. The ideas are still settling, and my photos continue to swirl as I go through them, so I can't know yet whether this book helped me see a little more clearly or differently, but it certainly directed my attention to different aspects of the coastal temperate rain forest ecosystem. More to come...
Photographed on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
1908_7202 Forest
I brought the 8mm fisheye into the forest for the first time. No, the trees weren't quite this tall... but the sun really is a star! Reality really didn't enter the equation; I was after the feel of the forest more than a literal depiction.
While camping and photographing, I read The Overstory by Richard Powers, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel about trees: "Something genuinely new, in the way it decenters the human as the source of all meaning and value", according to Michael Pollan on the rear cover blurb. The ideas are still settling, and my photos continue to swirl as I go through them, so I can't know yet whether this book helped me see a little more clearly or differently, but it certainly directed my attention to different aspects of the coastal temperate rain forest ecosystem. More to come...
Photographed on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.