Photography: KirkDonaldsonPhotography.com

My photography is based on themes of design, beauty and spirit. Subjects include nature, people, place, details and abstract. The hope is to capture images both for artistic pleasure and to ultimately advance environmental and social justice issues.

Art has been a lifetime interest for me. There is something about shape, pattern, texture, color, time and motion that have always drawn me. I suppose my hidden aspiration was to be a fine painter and go to art school. My athletic endeavors reflect the same concepts. Form, timing, strength and strategy are involved in sailing, tower diving, skiing and technical climbing: not that different from dance. Over the years I realize that much of what I consider rich in my life comes through the fine arts: visual, musical, and creative movement. Dentistry is my profession. The work I do there places the same artistic demands of form and motion in the process of providing care to a patient. For me, life is art: in all its experiences.

See Kirk’s photography at KirkDonaldsonPhotography.com