08/31/2007 Lancaster County, PA This image initiated my narrative of the “third space” between the representational and the abstract. I was impressed by the stunning richness of the rocks and minerals arranged about the excavation, the pareidolia creatures they contained, and how the enormous boulders used to line the gravel roads throughout the quarry become the most delicate rows of gems when seen from the air.

10/09/2009 Luzerne County, PA Outside of Nanticoke, hearty shrubs and small trees hold on to islands of soil among the waste rock and coal tailings near an abandoned coal processing site

02/04/2010 Lancaster County, PA Low southern Winter light creates long shadows from the barren trees surrounding a dirt track near New Holland.

10/08/2008 Schuylkill County, PA Ridges of coal tailings near Lansford show the progression of forest re-growth from the unmined hill in the foreground to the farthest ridges just above the stripping pit in the background.

11/21/2009 Luzerne County, PA To the East and Southeast of Hazleton, vast areas appear as a churned and blackened landscape of hills of coal tailings and lakes of dried run-off from anthracite strip mines. Within that landscape lies intimate beauty.

10/20/2010 Ocean County, NJ Flying west from Barnegat Light over the Manahawkin Bay marshlands, I encountered this human like figure emerging from the marsh. The straight and diagonal lines in the photograph are drainage channels, cut a century ago for the purpose of improving irrigation and reducing mosquito breeding. These man-made lines give the image the appearance of a cave painting or hieroglyph, as if created by a giant hand from the sky upon the landscape.

07/03/2010 Clearfield County, PA Piles of multicolored tailings from a mine in western Pennsylvania created by humans and earth moving machinery form graceful patterns seen from the above, part of the aesthetic beauty found within the altered landscapes of Pennsylvania.

12/31/2009 Baltimore County, Maryland This image represents one of the unexpected discoveries made by casually taking along the camera on an unexpected flight. The last day of the decade, December 31’st, 2009, and I was released from work early. Just a dusting of snow on the ground didn’t keep me from taking to the air, and flying south into Maryland and over Pretty Boy Reservoir, I slowly circled and photographed this peaceful winter gem in the middle of the lake.

10/20/2010 Ocean County, New Jersey Flying low along the coastline north of Atlantic City, I took numerous photos as I proceeded towards Barnegat Light. Several days of heavy rains in recent days had left the coastal waters heavily laden with sediment, giving the water the murky, greenish hue. The unusual, backwards cresting of the waves make it appear as if these are giant waves seen from the side cascading towards the viewer, when actually the photograph is from a vertical perspective. The two people in the upper right corner are the few humans that appear in any of my aerial photographs.

08/31/2007 Berks County Pennsylvania Dyer Quarry, which is off-limits to the public due to several deaths that have occurred there, has become a special place of interest to me. I have flown over it often, looking into the peaceful depths, often watching birds circling just over the water, and have even made the journey to visit the quarry by land, in which I found it to be a lovely, spiritual, powerful and impressive place.