Shoreline Diversions

 I collect images in time while walking along the boundary of land, sea and sky. The pictures capture what I think of as familiar, spiced with little variations and just the right amount of unpredictability. They contrast my own sense of wellbeing with the natural world's slender margins of endurance. That combination of tension and peace forms strands of beauty in my mind, something I respond to but don't create. 

In revisiting the photographs experimentally with the digital algorithms of Photoshop I open up to turbulence in that familiarity. The little variations and unpredictable possibilities zoom around irreverently. Exhilarating images form and reform barely tethered to their literal origins, but suggesting other satisfying truths in fiction. The abstractions provoke skirmishes between my interior mood and the camera's version of the universe. The process twists, stretches, rolls like kneaded dough.

Fluid Realities

Cormorants Resting

Gannet Formation

Brant, Folly Cove

Long-tailed Duck Preening

Looking Toward Ipswich

Tideline Plover

Merganser Courtship

Torn Sunset