Mike is an environmentalist/photographer with a special interest in southern Appalachia, a region blessed with awe inspiring landscapes and a unique blend of cultures. Speaking of the southern Appalachians Mike says, "
This is my land; I belong to it and it belongs to me. I know its history and it knows mine. This will always be home."
Mike seeks to capture images of nature and everyday life in places hidden along back-roads of the southern Appalachians, the mid-western prairies, and the deserts of the southwest. His landscape and nature images serve as a reminder of...
Mike is an environmentalist/photographer with a special interest in southern Appalachia, a region blessed with awe inspiring landscapes and a unique blend of cultures. Speaking of the southern Appalachians Mike says, "
This is my land; I belong to it and it belongs to me. I know its history and it knows mine. This will always be home."
Mike seeks to capture images of nature and everyday life in places hidden along back-roads of the southern Appalachians, the mid-western prairies, and the deserts of the southwest. His landscape and nature images serve as a reminder of the natural beauty of the world we live in and encourage us, in the midst of the stresses of everyday life, to connect with something greater than ourselves.
Images from Mike's Gallery, Lost-N-TIme, depict things left behind; things abandoned; things forgotten. His images evoke a sense of wonder about those who once used and valued these relics of the past. What were their plans and dreams, their heartaches and sorrows, their successes and failures? Do we remember them with gratitude or with contempt? Or are they simply gone and forgotten, their lives of little consequence?
It is said that life is like a vapor, here today - gone tomorrow. Perhaps tomorrow, after we have gone, someone will explore the relics of our lives. Will we be remembered with gratitude, or will we simply be gone and forgotten?
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." President Lyndon B. Johnson (Signing of the Wilderness Act, 1964)