Joan Bowers - Dune Study #4 - 7 x 9 on 8 x 10 - Selenium Toned Lith Print - $175

With my photographs, I wish to communicate my readiness to see beauty in even the smallest elements: naked trees in winter, water that lies still in ponds or moves through channels cut into the land. The scenes I photograph are mostly without people in them. While the presence of others in the scene is sometimes used to convey perspective I believe this presence would impinge on the aim of my image – to provide the viewer with a momentary escape into this representation of nature as refuge. - Joan E. Bowers 12 January 2013 jebbo101@comcast.net www.irongatephotography.net