TITLE: Great Egret

Great egret with reflection. Taken late in the day just after sunset'

AUTHOR: James Fox (United States)

Artist Statement
I’m constantly evaluating and re-evaluating image making whether capturing images or enhancing them - it’s a continuous circle. Everywhere I go I’m looking for, evaluating, or composing images. There is beauty everywhere just waiting for the artist to draw it out much as a musician works to get all the beauty possible from their instrument.

Having been a photographic artist since the early 1970’s, I have studied with John Sexton, an assistant to Ansel Adams, John Paul Capinegro, and Dan Burkholder; however, most of my photographic education has been self-directed.
My vision of fine art photography has been influenced by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, John Sexton, Minor White, Dan Burkholder and countless other twentieth and twenty-first century photographers.

I began my professional life as a musician and music educator. After a few years of teaching I became a school principal. Soon after becoming a principal I began making images on weekends and evening, during school vacations, and on frequent backpack trips to the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. Soon it became my passion to capture images and make them into art. My passion for art was so overwhelming that I left the teaching profession in 1991 to devote full time to photography.

I have images in several private and corporate collections throughout the southwest. Images from commercial assignments are included in portfolios and advertising publications of architects and designers.

Being an artist is a very liberating adventure, an experience that permits me to see all aspects of life as art. I try to respond to the visual clues in the world. My working medium is photography but I gain inspiration from painting, sculpture, drama, poetry, music, and the natural and scientific worlds.