I went home last weekend and shot like crazy. It was so nice to be back on my turf. I know thatplace like the back of my hand. It was foliage season, obviously.

Here is another image from the thicket. A thesis for this project is slowly being made in my mind. Greek literature is what began this whole thing believe it or not. In all the stories I was reading I noticed how, often, cities and towns were gated, and to go beyond those gates put the characters in danger of the temptations of the untamed. To throw someone out of the city was often a punishment. The banished had to fend for them selves in the wilderness. It's just the beginning of my idea, I will see how it develops.

I am not exactly sure where this work is coming from, but I am absolutely loving making it. Maybe it is the result of looking at an Ansel Adams calender all year, or maybe it just being tiered of making portraits. I am enjoying the solitude of making on my own, portrait work is always a team operation. I can go into to the woods alone and shoot without being seen or seeing. The compositions that present themselves to me are sometimes phenomenal and I am always happily overwhelmed by the plants ability to overgrow each other.