To this day, I am puzzled by my early choices as a photographer. I carried my view camera into the beautiful, remote woods of northern Michigan and pointed it away from the majestic views of trees and sky to the streambed at my feet where small rocks appeared to float in the bright skylight reflected on the water. In that mysterious perhaps even random choice, I discovered a subject matter that continues to captivate my imagination twenty-five years later. Look beyond the obvious of rocks, mud, and sediments depicted in my photographs, and you may
see in the transparent layers, depth, and space
the beauty and mystery that draws me back to the water’s edge.

My career has been varied but always directed by the desire to create images. I have worked as a freelance photographer for history and natural history museums, as a cameraperson on network documentaries, and as a producer for not-for-profit organizations. And since my first exposures of rocks and water in northern Michigan, I have worked as an artist photographing the natural landscape. The prints available on this site have resulted from many hundreds of images taken throughout my career.

Portrait by Anna Harty