I have spent the past several months sorting out and editing my photographic images I have made over the past five decades. My photographic journey has taken me down many paths of creative interest. As I go through the tens of thousands of images made on film or with a digital camera, it becomes apparent there are numerous images that can be grouped together according to theme and style. I can clearly see how my interest with certain subjects grew while others faded. My efforts with this project is to products books of images that I pulled from my files and organize them to be viewed as a theme. This is a time consuming project that takes discipline to complete. My first completed book is titled "Street Portraits". It contains about seventy photographs of people I randomly met and photographed in their environments. It is satisfying to see a complete body of work represented in a book format. Currently I am sorting through images that contain a theme of what I refer to as visual rhythms in nature. These are images that have common patterns with form and movement found in nature. I first went through my plant life images, and then as the project grew, I found similar images of tree roots and rock formations. As I work on old and forgotten images I became aware of how my photographic pursue developed a rhythmic visual style.
