This is what artists do, to call our attention to sights and ideas and feelings in the world we would otherwise miss, things experienced with the eyes and the mind and the heart.  Photographers as artists strive to capture an image that tickles our fancy, stimulates our brain, stretches our imagination, and pulls on our emotions.  The images we capture should last beyond the present inasmuch as it captures not a passing state of the world, but an idea or feeling, a figment of our own sense of meaning and understanding of reality.

Since recently starting my photography avocation, my photographs have received some noteworthy recognition: