"I could summarize my photography with three words: "On the Trail...." Over the last thirty-five years I've trekked, scrambled, and hiked hundreds of trails up mountains, through forests, into canyons and along beaches. What drives me is the desire to immerse myself in the natural world, not just to see it but to connect with its deeper spirit or essence. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Nature" expresses the idea this way:
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life---no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground---my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space---all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball: I am nothing: I see all: the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me: I am part or parcel of God.
The camera enables me to record that immersion. In a way it serves as Emerson's "transparent eyeball". I hope that in observing my photographs you feel the essence of the place as if you were on the trail." - Jeffrey Trubisz
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