Reflections and Inspirations

  THE GREAT SALT LAKE Seeing the Whole Story, Building a Shared Future by Jeff Mayfield   Composite Digital Illustration from Original Drawings by Jeff Mayfield Link to the Message for the Image   What do we miss when we see The Great Salt Lake only as a beautiful landscape?   What changes when we begin to see its water, wildlife, people, health, economy and future as parts of one connected system?   WHERE THE JOURNEY BEGAN         Light moved across the water, changing the colors of the lake, sky, shoreline and distant mountains. Small shapes moved on the vastness of the lake. What were they? What brought them here? What was happening in this [...]

The Lake That Sustains the Journey Migration, Wildlife, Water, and People in the Great Salt Lake Basin     Autumn at the Great Salt Lake is more than a change of color. It is a change of travelers. Along the shore of Antelope Island, bison and pronghorn remain as the season turns. Above them, an American White Pelican recalls the summer breeding season now drawing to a close, while flocks of Tundra Swans begin returning to the wetlands of the Great Salt Lake. More than 30,000 Tundra Swans can begin arriving at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in mid-October, part of the immense seasonal movement [...]

"The Earth has Its Music For Those Who Will Listen" George Santayana [...]

OUT FOR BREAKFAST 12 x 18  Mixed Media on Cold Pressed Fiber Paper   Mixed Media provides creative freedom and rewards with the strengths of the various mediums. My photography focuses on how to encompass an image with light and its reflections. Often incorporating multiple photographs into a composite image gives an innovative perspective. Whether incorporating bright colors, the values expressed in a black and white photo, or how the light reflects off the subject and cuts across the background; the light and its reflections are crucial to illuminating the message of each image. Utilizing the colors within the visible sections of the light [...]