Aspens in Snow; Its Time Has Come

by Michael Glenn Gallagher

“In my photography, I am trying to examine an intimate view of an object rather than the grand thing we see daily without dwelling on it. We often fail to see something because it is so familiar and has become mundane, and ceased being a thing of enchantment. These intimate bits, when we are presented with them, seem often to become an abstraction and we must sometimes wonder how we missed it. Much of my work can be described as minimalist or as an abstraction. The size of the subject is not relevant to my seeing it and interpreting it: tiny or not. That idea may apply even when I am walking in a very big place. White Sands comes to mind: a vast landscape that can be described with just lines of two or three monochrome colors. That is all that is needed to tell it's story, nothing extraneous need be seen. I do not search for these, I walk city streets or wilderness paths, and see the patterns, textures, colors that present themselves as mystery.”