Beauty, Nature and the Artist

Our role as photographers is to notice visual things.... to be observant, humble and quiet... to be able to see more deeply than most. We use our craft to bring that subtle visual awareness alive so that others may see more deeply as well. Consider what Courbet and Cezanne have to say....

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most
diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or
rather to the artist who discovers it.
::: Gustave Courbet :::

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist
is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with
nature.
::: Paul Cezanne :::