There is a Buddha statue in my garden. While the Buddha sits and watches, the snails come and go.
I aspire to that centeredness - in the process of creating photographs and in life - hence the name snailwatcher.
This site exists to share my photos. For me, photography is often a form of visual meditation. It is my hope that this site may provide digital respite in a turbulent world.
This site, snailwatcher.com, started life in the 1990's as a chronicle of my horticultural adventures. I am still growing a large garden. At this time, instead of using the site to share the very occasional tidbit from the green side of my life, I find greater purpose in using snailwatcher to offer my photography.
My other work with images has been in the area of digital photo and document restoration although I am currently on sabbatical from this endeavor in order to document and write about my collection of antique maps of Yorkshire. The maps are beautiful in and of themselves and it is such a pleasure to study them. Why Yorkshire? It's a long story...
For samples of my restoration work, please visit my other site, Images Revived.
MH, December 2010