“All That I Survey . . . “
Who in their right mind gets up at 3:30 in the
morning, drives an hour and a half powered by cheap coffee to some lonely,
deserted shoreline or wind-swept prairie parkland, just to see the sun come
up?! Probably the same people you’ll
find standing in an open field of a long-abandoned farmhouse in the middle of
January, well after midnight, in hopes of seeing the aurora borealis appear
overhead. Who are these people? Why, they are landscape photographers, of
course!
Daniel Menheer and Chris Ford are two such
photographers. They live to be the first to see the sun rise up from the
blackness of night. They seek out subtle shapes and nuances of nature’s
designs and patterns. Their goal is to capture those scenes that others might
miss or not see at all, and bring back images that make us marvel at the
beautiful simplicity that nature puts on display for us to see each and every
day. Whether fleeting images that are frozen in hundredths of a second, or
beautifully extended exposures of minutes that beckon us into the mists of time
itself, these are the images that stop us in our tracks and call us to drink in
all the details that nature has exposed for us to savour.
This display shares but a few of these
carefully chosen photographs that both Daniel and Chris have had a passion to
discover and capture. They are gift-wrapped in the enthusiasm and wonder of all
that nature has to offer, and each image has its own unique story surrounding
it. You the viewer are invited to discover each of these stories, and revel in
each image as it calls out to you.
We hope to see you all there.
