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It was the first warm day of the year and I had heard the owls in the back yard closer than I had ever heard them before. I decided to take my Canon in to the edge of the woods on our property to see if I could find him. I hadn't even gotten to the edge yet, when I saw him fly from the top of a tree in front of me to this low branch around knee level. He stared at me as I stared at him. I took about 40 photographs with the honeysuckle branch blocking the majority of his face. I didn't want to move for fear that he would leave. Just as my legs were cramping up, I decided to lean to the left just a bit and take one final attempt at capturing the light on his folded wings. We hear the owls every evening in the woods behind our house. It's like as our day is ending, the night watchman comes to ensure our safety.

Our goal in our photography is to capture, not only a visually appealing image, but also the detail of the scene. Although we can not deliver the smell, touch, taste and feel of each subject, we hope you will be able to look at the subject and let your imagination fill in the senses that can't be captured in a photograph, but can in photography. We specialize in waterfalls, cascades, and landscapes. Our work has been explained as a play on light and dark. We are self taught photographers who have been shooting images only since December of 2009. Pete has the added challenge of being red-green colorblind. Nevertheless; some humbling compliments of our work include 'Stunning,' 'Amazing,' 'Truly a Beautiful Work of Art,' and of an image...