I believe the purpose of a photograph is to evoke an emotional response. The experience of growing up and living in nature has done this for me and by selecting just the right place and moment to make a photograph that conveys those emotions has helped provide a healing within myself.
My goal is to share not just an image, but to create an image that allows us to see the world in new ways, to drop pre-conceptions and to find focus in a busy and chaotic world. Having the ability to create images that promote meditation, mindfulness and creative living in photographs that contain meaning beyond their visual content allows one healing and personal transformations. In a photograph we co-create, between the viewer, the photographer and the subject creating the ability to fall into the moment of oneness within the image. This presents the opportunity for the viewer to step into a place where different realities exist. Where new opportunities are opened up both in the world and within ourselves through an image that encourages compassion, mindfulness, inner peace and internal healing through engagement with the viewer.
Robert's heritage lies deep within Utah. His grandparents worked in the coal mines of central Utah. Robert is a landscape/wildlife photographer who grew up, and still lives in Utah's ruggedly beautiful Castle Country. Since childhood he has spent most of his free time in the mountains and canyons of Utah. Hiking the beautiful and diverse, sometimes harsh but often delicate nature of the country, he found a reverence to the wilderness. This special appreciation for nature htat he deeply experienced touched something within him.
This reverence that has grown from the wild beauty that Mother Nature has to offer, gave a passion to capture it with photography. Robert's goal is to show the grandeur, peacefulness and serenity of nature in a way that the viewer will experience his own set of emotions.
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright"
Henry David Thoreau
