As both musician and photographer, I find that composing a photograph materializes when a moment converges visually, musically, and emotionally. The arts are intertwined both in my life and in my creative work, and it is this intersection of medium- visual, musical, and literary, that is woven into the images you see in this portfolio.

As music can evoke an emotional response, so too can images resonate feelings. When performing a concert, I want to move the listener, and to convey the composer's feeling through my interpretation. Similarly, I hope to portray my feeling of a landscape through my photographic compostions, which are illuminated not only by the landscape itself, but also by the music of such composers as Frederick Delius, Felix Mendelssohn, John Barry...the words of William Wordsworth, John Fowles, and Daphne du Maurier. Their art serves as an inspiration and fuels the intention behind each image.

Regarding the photographs themselves, I only work with film and do not digitally manipulate the images. I shoot with a Nikon F100 and the Hasselblad XPan.

It is the ultimate gift to be accorded a human life with all of the senses to perceive it. I am grateful for the opportunity to discover, to inhale, and to capture this most beautiful Earth in images, and share with you, through the many textures of sight and sound, my view of our magnificent planet.

Andrea Comsky