My Photography
“Drawing with Light”
I’m adding another page to my integrative medicine website to share a creative passion of mine, photography.
As my experience in integrative medicine has deepened, I have discovered how wonderfully it parallels photography. In photography, it takes contrasting light and darkness to produce an image.
In integrative medicine, adverse situations highlight the paths we need to take to find harmony and balance.
Without shades of darkness, we cannot fully appreciate or “see” the light.
Just as I change lenses in photography to see a subject more clearly, I change lenses in my integrative medicine practice – wide-angle, telephoto, macro – to see the important aspects of each person’s makeup – body, mind, and spirit. Because we are all unique, different lenses are needed. A more powerful picture or understanding comes from this diverse viewpoint.
In both photography and integrative medicine, it is important to observe without filters, quiet the mind and connect with the subject.
We all have unique creative gifts and contrasting light within us. May greater expression of your own unique gifts help you in your journey to further fulfillment, health and healing.
Hammock Rays
Foreground gives way to rays of light illuminating the hammock cords
Portland Head Light
Its powerful light gradually receded into the beautiful sunrise
Papohaku Beach
Sky suddenly lit up brilliantly, outlining the trees
St. Damien Church
Founded by Father Damien, who ministered to lepers in Molokai, later contracting and dying from the disease
Sea Cliff Rocks
Filters used to soften movement of water in remote eastern Molokai
Molokai Sunset
Sun slips past Maui into the ocean
Iowa Landscape
NE Iowa idyllic green fields
Morning Fog
Gentle fog gives way to morning light in NE Iowa