Friday, January 1, 2010

Kick off and why nature?

Happy New Year, all! And we start a new decade to boot. With the start of 2010 come regular posts, a promise I am resolve in.

So let's start straight at the heart of things....Why Nature?

My Grandmother raised two sons to be athletes and artists, who would in turn influence me. She was always perplexed at our love of wilderness travel. Photographing Landscapes or Wildlife is a natural synthesis of this upbringing. But it is more. Adams or Rowell photographed it. Muir or Abbey wrote of it. Scientific Amberican even quantifies it.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=moral-call-of-the-wild

So here is a simple task for the New Year, one I will be challenging myself to....put this article to the test, go for a hike. After all there is no substitute for empirical data.

-Shane

http://www.shanesrogiphoto.com