ENTRY DESCRIPTION
While visiting the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands in April of 2022, I spent an early morning exploring the Maspalomas Dunes Special Nature Reserve just after an evening storm. I was struck by the myriad ways in which rivulets and masses of sand combined with volcanic ash to form patterns and textures, at times, resembling those typically found on seashells. I felt fortunate to have witnessed the drama of these dunes, uniquely etched by both wind and rain.

AUTHOR
I am a professional composer, retired professor of music, and amateur photographer, having only recently begun to enter photo competitions. Together with my husband, an orchestral conductor, I now travel the world, drawing inspiration from both natural and urban environments.

The similarities between music and photography become ever more apparent to me as I gain experience using my eyes as if they were my ears – seeing textures, lines, and shapes as intently as I hear them. I have discovered that visual patterns have rhythm too, that a landscape can be as contrapuntal as a Bach fugue, and that cameras and lenses can be "played" as artfully as musical instruments.

There are technological parallels as well. For example, a macro lens can be considered analogous to a microphone, each providing opportunities to see or hear beyond the realm of normal experience to a magical place of abstraction and wonder.

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