CB Kayaks Elkhorn Slough - June, 2004 ofma Photo - Barri Dommer - 2004 CB Kayaks Chimacum Creek, near Port Townsend, WA - Puget Sound. The camera's in the box. H The sequence below shows how Chris made the photograph featured on his 2004 Open Studio announcement.w Th Photo - Barri Dommer - 2004   Photo - Barri Dommer - 2004   Photo - Barri Dommer - 2004   Mountain Stream from Below #1 - 2004 w   "Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs the most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature." Ernst Haas   Since I was very young I have spent much of my "quality time" in the great outdoors. In the mountains, in the ocean, in the garden, the beauty and order in nature never cease to amaze me. Water in particular has always fascinated and inspired me.   Photo - Ann Jauregui - 1968 CB age 4 - Pilot Creek   Photo - Ann Jauregui - 1996 Some years later ... Pilot Creek - taking the photo below   Mountain Stream #13, Pilot Creek, 1996   "Making an object look like what you see is not as important as making the whole square you paint it on feel like what you feel about the object." Georgia O'Keeffe   "The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have … mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and the photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world – in other words, expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces … the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feeling rather than illustrating … " Jackson Pollack   If you start out looking it is amazing what you can see.   CLICK BELOW to Link to the new ZunZun music CD "Water Song" featuring topical songs about water conservation - Song samples from this CD can be downloaded from this website. This CD is geared for children of all ages and water educators, and includes a number of Chris' favorite water photographs on the CD booklet.