David HM Gray Photography
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The first time my mother, a portrait photographer, began teaching me to print, I had to stand on a chair to see inside the developing tray. From that day, it never stopped feeling like magic to see the dark areas appearing followed shortly by the mid-tones that made the image seem to blossom even under the darkroom light. Since those days, there have been many technical changes in Photography. But photography still enables the magic of memorializing moments of wonder so that they are not confined to memory or overlooked altogether. A goal of mine is to find and preserve from ordinary situations the essence of the extraordinary, revealing, or celebratory. That could be a fleeting expression, a macro view into a dragonfly’s world, a baby great horned owl with a lot of attitude, an old windmill still turning in the wind, the way spider webs and winter ice refract the colors of a rainbow, or the dance of milkweed seeds shortly before taking flight, to name just a few of my excursions into the magical world that is all around us.
