Here’s a photo that nicely states what I’m trying to do:
It’s a buck crossing the abandoned railway tracks that pass over the Don Valley along the trestle on the north side of the Evergreen Brickworks. In the background is one of the arches from the Prince Edward Viaduct.
On the splash page for this web site I write: “I vacillate between wilderness and city, between landscape and street, between wildlife and urban living. I think most of us experience a consciousness divided between the natural world and our cultural accumulations, between innocence and experience, heart and mind. I take my camera into that divide to see what it reveals.”
Earlier, I shot the buck head on in isolation from his context:
I prefer the first shot. It’s more in tune with my personal mandate.