Cumberland Island
Nature is the real religion. Like walking through cathedrals. I’ve been shooting nature these past few years because they lack everything that is wrong with humanity. No matter how crazy, dangerous, “ugly” or “beautiful”, nature is perfect. Even it’s reaction to humanity’s disrespect is perfect. It is what it is, and it knows. Walking through Cumberland was in some ways opposite from Antarctica. Lush, green, “populated” (by plants and wildlife), growing. The synergy between all of the living things is sacred. The way trees react and adapt to each other and their surroundings. Nature adapts to its surroundings to survive. Humans adapt our surroundings to our needs to survive. The depletion of resources, only to grow and consume the next available resource, destroying anything that gets in our way. The chaos of nature is not chaos at all.