TITLE: Meditatio mystica

A small series, born from a soul-searching episode. With simplicity in mind, if not minimalism, I was driven to create these images. The common thread is about trees in a foggy, almost mystical environment and of course light without which no image could exist.

AUTHOR: Yves Gauvreau (Canada)

My name is Yves Gauvreau; I was born in Montréal in June of 1954. I’m a retired teacher in trades. I studied one session in photography when I was in high school a long time ago. I’ve mostly learned photography by myself from then on. Maybe 25 years ago my wife and I started a flower garden in our backyard and from there was born a passion for gardens and we started visiting gardens from small to big all over the place here in Quebec. At that time we lived in Laval and we became a member of the Montreal Botanical Garden.

Almost at the same time, I bought a few new cameras until I settled on a Nikon D70 with a Nikon 60mm Micro Nikkor f2.8D that I still have, which is one if not the best macro lens around at the time at least.

You guessed it, a good macro lens, plenty of flowers and some critters makes a very good mix to fall in love with doing macro or close-up photography and I did just that, I became passionate about this kind of work.
Some 15 years ago we bought a house here in Sainte-Adele PQ as the song goes. We had very little time to do anything other than some renovation all around the house. But a couple of years ago I bought a Nikon D610 and the fever got me right back into a macro photography mode.