I am so excited to be working on this project!  The Klamath is just so beautiful.  It is also extremely rugged in its terrain.  I love being around water.  I have photographed waterways for many, many years.  I have produced 2 other exhibits on water.  Barton Creek in Austin, Texas and the Los Angeles River, in Los Angeles, CA.  Listening to running water in a creek or a river, 2 different sounds, but both are just as beautiful to the heart.  Watching cascades and waterfalls are absolutely the best reality shows I could ever hope to see.  Water is life.  Water is about the spirit of living.  I love water.  It is also motion.  This project is will also show the forests and mountain ranges, even about the people who make the Klamath home.  But, the primary focus is the waterways of the Klamath.

       Ever felt insignificant? I have been in downtown Los Angeles among those tall, tall buildings, yet I never felt insignificant among them. I have felt amazement at what God has allowed man to build. This includes taking tons of metal and cement high into the air with seemingly ease and grace. These are obtainable and assessable after all "we" designed and constructed them.

       At various places along the Klamath River Valley I have felt dwarfed by the surrounding mountains. Thinking about how these mountains were formed, an unimaginable amount of underground force shoving massive amounts of rock and earth upward, causes me to feel small and insignificant. A river that ever so slowly cuts through rock to form its winding path nearly 270 miles through how many thousands of years. Again, I am insignificant. What power is behind the salmon urns up the flow of a mighty river like the Klamath, to jump cascades and water falls. These seem assessable, but not obtainable for God designed and constructed these things.

        Nature of this world is finite, but still too large for us to truly understand. God is infinity. The authors of the books of the Bible use things in nature as a way of defining God. We use terms like forces of nature, power, uncontrollable, unpredictable, eminence. We have some understanding of nature because we can see it, touch it - it is physical. God is not. It is written that God knows the number of grains of sand, the number of hairs on my head, the name of every bird. These things we cannot comprehend, but at least we can begin to see how big that may be, because we see the birds, sand and hair.

       God created nature for us to tend to, to care over, to provide for our needs. Realizing this makes me significant to God. My life, me, matters to Him. I now stand in awe at the sight of the mountain ranges and river valley. I no longer feel insignificant compared to them. My heart is filled with pure joy at being surrounded by God's creation.

       This project will educate through photographs and words on the positive things being done to help the salmon in their runs each year to ancient spawning grounds, and to keep water quality clean and water flowing. This project will be documenting people who are working to make a positive difference in the Klamath bio-region.

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