ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Bunny Luna, photographed in the Tatoosh Mountains in July 2019. I had intended to photograph Bunny on a sunny day in the mountains, surrounded by sweeping vistas, but the day of our photoshoot dawned cloudy and cool. It ended up being an unexpectedly beautiful day anyway, with fog moving in and out moodily among the peaks. We found a magnificent rock formation, a great contrast for human skin, when suddenly a marmot poked its head over the top of the rocks. It sat on its perch for twenty minutes, watching us work, inadvertently modeling along with Bunny in many of the photos, like this one. In the end, we're all just mammals in the mist, making our way together through the fog.

AUTHOR
I've been making photographs since 1986, when I spent a summer working at Grand Canyon National Park and my grandfather gifted me his Pentax K1000. When my son was born in 1998, I fell in love with the challenge of portrait photography. There's a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson that describes it well: "The soul in man is not an organ but a light... From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." My task as a photographer is to capture light in the form of digital pixels; but my task as an artist is to capture a glimpse of the soul shining through. About a decade ago, I started focusing on figure photography, mostly in nature, with themes of reconnecting with that part of us that is natural and wild. My work also strives to represent diversity in all forms, and to represent the breadth of human sensuality. My photos have been exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout the United States and Europe.

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