Pine Trees

Pine Barrens, NJ

As I go over more then 30,000 slides, as I search our database, as I locate and look at those images that I have taken, I realized that over the years I have made a habit of photographing trees. There is something strong in trees. They reach up to the sky for the sun. There are grays and browns. Earth colors. When I get to the computer I feel a freedom come over me, creating a new image out of the photograph. I add more earth tones, darken the contrast, brighten highlights until I find the image my mind is seeing. That's what I did with "Pine Trees".