Description
The Scarths’ close-up images of showy orchis and northern monkshood, great spangled fritillary and painted lady, red-breasted nuthatch and eastern wood-pewee, ornate box turtle and gray treefrog, big bluestem and cotton-grass, and lots of other natural wonders look more like paintings than photographs. Beginning with an iridescent fly hovering over a neon-purple fringed gentian and ending with their iconic image of coneflowers refracted in dewdrops, they have got created a sparkling jewelbox of images so we can make us take a look at the small world around us with renewed appreciation.
Attending to the small things within the fabric of nature is the Scarths’ source of artistic inspiration. Taking Walt Whitman’s “each and every leaf is a miracle” as their beginning, they celebrate not only each and every leaf but each and every feather, insect, dewdrop, flower, lichen, and intricate organism within the evolving internet of life.