I am an artistic Nature photographer. Through my studies of ceramics, Chodo Calligraphy (oriental style brushing painting), Haiku Poetry, Ikebana (Japanese style flower arrangement), I have become very close to nature. My enthusiasm for gardening lead me to explore my interest in photography. "The natural beauty of each individual leaf or flower becomes a work of art through the camera." Eventually I began to develop my own style and seek out more complicated compositions of small landscapes, architectural details, and manipulated images. My true love is photographing nature: flowers, butterflies, and other garden friends. For twenty years I lived in Asia/Pacific: Australia, Japan, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Living and learning the culture and the natural beauty of these environments gave me a strong sense of intimacy in even the smallest things. "Art is born of the observation and investigation of Nature." Cicero Polly Curran