Tribute to Thoreau
Since discovering and devouring Henry David Thoreau's magnum opus, Walden or Life in the Woods has been formative in how I view and try to understand my natural surroundings. As I ramble across the acres of Paradise, through fields, woods, and wetlands I try to keep Thoreau's perspective close to heart. To see the world with all the wonder he saw it with. Thoreau never travelled extensively or to exotic lands. Instead, he spent two years in the backyard of his hometown admiring all the beauty and phenomena of local nature. He knew that the "universe is wider than our views of it." Especially the universe found right in the backyard. This is what this photographic census is attempting to achieve; to prove that on a small parcel of land, beauty and wonder can be found if we just truly open our eyes and look beyond and deep within the routine, familiar backyard.
Acres of Paradise
Beyond & deep within routine
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