Ron Harrower is a photographer who seeks to embrace through his camera lens the beauty and elegance of nature, and the rhythm and variety of the built environment.

His subjects are found in the forest, at the shore, in the home, and in the field. Often his work captures a serendipitous, unique moment; yet some of his studies enhance the found environment with the intentional composing of materials, or the use of effects, and by the introduction of light.

Light is used to reveal, and sometimes to obscure with ambiguity.

His work is informed by his life experience. After a childhood in rural New Jersey, he embarked on an era of exploration & education that brought him throughout the United States, and to Australia and New Zealand.

He has been a determined birdwatcher for more than 37 years, and his “Life List” of birds witnessed in the wild is approaching 300.

His adventures out into nature have brought into his life the complication of Lyme Disease. But despite the suffering this has brought, he has not kept from his passions. Rather, it has opened his eyes and heart with compassion, embracing with this camera the broken and the imperfect.

As you pause with his photographs, please listen to your heart, to see where you find inspiration. Is it in the play of light? The spark of life? Or, the power of pattern?