I am technologically challenged so it might be a little rough around the edges for a while. I have taken photographs off and on (not counting snapshots) since 1987. This first group of B&W photos was used to illustrate my book “Rhythm Vision” (Intaglio Press, 1990 - see also www.rhythmvision.com). I continued for a few years and then stopped about 1993. I resumed again in late 2001. While sitting on a log in the woods, I suddenly had the urge to bend backwards across the log. I was overcome by the strange power and beauty of the new vista I encountered there. The next day I returned to the same location and this time inverted over the stream bank and was even more startled by what I saw. During the next several months I took many upside down B&W pictures over the bank of Glade Stream in Reston, Va. Having pretty much exhausted what I could do in that area, I stopped shooting in 2002 and did not resume again until 2006 when I got my first (and only) digital camera - a Nikon D70s. A collection of photos from 2006 is on www.oozingthemoon.com I started again in early January of 2008. Most, if not all, of the photos posted here will be from this recent work. I approach nature photography a little differently. I’m interested in beauty but I am equally attracted to humor, paradox, and puzzlement. I am always ready to commit the “Pathetic Fallacy” of seeing human forms, emotions, and stories in nature. Imaginary animals and figures from myth and legend are my favorites. For me it is a test of how much I can see and enjoy. If I can suspend disbelief and see something beautiful and strange along the way, I am gratified. All my photographs are unaltered - no changes, no rearranges, no PhotoShop, au naturale. The only thing I do is adjust the amount of illumination, which is like changing exposure levels in a darkroom - the simplest of procedures. My kind of photography would be pointless if I digitally altered the results.