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About Dave Otto http://carrboro.com/daveottophotos/about.shtml <br /> rB B• <br /> in Photography is an art form to express creative inspiration as well <br /> s. as an effective medium for communication. I live on a small but <br /> beautiful creek that flows through Carrboro and Chapel Hill, North <br /> Carolina, one of the fastest growing areas in the Southeast. <br /> I have been working for the past five years with a small grassroots <br /> organization—the Friends of Bolin Creek—to preserve the creek <br /> corridor and adjacent woodlands. I have used photography as a <br /> tool to communicate the beauty and importance-- ecological, <br /> recreational and historical--of this place in our efforts to educate <br /> the public and convince local governments to preserve this natural <br /> treasure. <br /> Visit wwWy,�iolincree org to learn more about Bolin Creek and my <br /> use of photography for education and preservation. <br /> photography My appreciation and mastery of digital <br /> communications med um have evvoived in pa allelwith efforts torpreserve Bolin <br /> Creek. <br /> I would like to share my skills and growing body of images of the flora and fauna <br /> of Bolin Creek and other places around the world that I have visited, as well as <br /> the people who inhabit my universe and perhaps yours. <br /> A few words about my approach to photography may be helpful before visiting <br /> the gallery.I am passionate about wildflowers and critters that inhabit the <br /> woodlands, particularly as seen through macro lens. <br /> There is beauty at every turn in the trail, creek or road we are following through <br /> life if we simply stop to took. However there is incredible beauty in nature that <br /> cannot be seen with the naked eye, but which can be seen readily through a <br /> macro lens. <br /> Moreover, nature is full of amazing patterns and brilliant colors. I am <br /> continually searching for unusual patterns and colors in the woodlands, at the <br /> beach or on crowded city streets. I am drawn to abstract patterns. <br /> For instance, the creek provides a marvelous mirror of nature. If the surface of <br /> the water is calm, one sees a precise reflection of the trees and sky. However, if <br /> the surface is disturbed by wind or flowing currents, the reflections become <br /> more and more abstract. I am fascinated with abstract patterns such as the <br /> reflections of autumn leaves in the creek,the continually changing kaleidoscope <br /> of water cascading over rocks, petals in the blossoms of wildflowers, or the ebb <br /> and flow of surf on the beach at sunset. <br /> After years of photographing wildflowers, it dawned on me that pictures of <br /> people, particularly children, enjoying the creek corridor would be far more <br /> persuasive arguments to convince decision makers about the need for <br /> preservation. <br /> Over the past few years I have tried to capture images of people of all ages enjoying the creek, woodlands or <br /> I of 2 I 1/19/2013 10:10 AM <br />