The Images

Water is ever-changing—lifegiving but dangerous, tranquil but unpredictable, powerful but fragile. My abstract close-up (macro) photography reveals hidden beauty in water, capturing unseen worlds by exploring the interplay of water, light, and glass. My images are experiments with new ways to capture overlooked details, evolving structures, and abstract qualities of water in its many forms.

Shaped by light and chance, each photograph illuminates some of water’s fleeting patterns, shifting combinations, and intricate forms, all of which are constantly changing during the process of capturing the image. The images evolve into what I see as abstract interpretations of four elements of the natural world: earth, air, fire, and water. The final result is a sometimes representational, sometimes surreal image of something in the larger world, beyond the viewfinder—remembered, dreamed, or imagined.

Festival of Lights
Festival of Lights
Jacob's Sandstorm
Jacob's Sandstorm

Each abstract macro photograph captures a brief second in time. What you see is unrepeatable. Nothing you see still exists. And nothing can ever be reconstructed.

Illustrating the fragility and impermanence of water in all its forms, my images highlight the need to preserve Earth’s oceans and other waterways and to protect marine ecosystems worldwide.

I aim to offer more than an image. I seek to create a space between dreams and reality, where imagination meets memory, and where you can find your own meaning in what I have seen through the lens. Open to your interpretation, my photographs invite an interaction with you, your intuition, perceptions, emotions, experiences, memories, dreams, and imagination.

I title and categorize the images based on what I see. But what do you see? I am starting a conversation; it is yours to continue.