When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

Robert Frank, Photographer

In my somatic practice I ask clients, often: How do you feel? Where do you feel it? Does it have a shape, a texture, a color? Does it make you want to move? Cry? Laugh out loud? Stomp your feet? My aim is to help people connect to their feelings through the body, to get out of their heads and into their bodies. So it is with these photos, a sample of my photographic work. Does one evoke a particular feeling? What is that feeling? By the way, it’s perfectly fine if it doesn’t.

Silver fox crouched in tall summer grass, amber eyes looking straight up at the camera

Fog on a residential street beneath a large maple, red stop sign glowing through the mist

Green katydid resting on a broad green leaf, nearly invisible against it

Long-legged spider inside a vintage glass canning jar, pink and green reflections in the glass

A single wet bare footprint on a pale surface

Carved stone green-man fountain with a pigeon drinking from the water at its mouth

A spotted fawn curled in the undergrowth beside a turquoise ceramic Buddha head, half hidden behind green leaves

Great blue heron standing alone on a sandstone bluff above still water

Infant lying on a blue blanket, eyes wide, looking directly at the camera

Mossy hanging bushtit nest among spent hydrangea blooms in a foggy garden

 

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

David Alan Harvey, Photographer