If you feel as though, for a few moments, you can travel vicariously through my images, then my goal will have been accomplished. The photos are the product of countless hours of planning, approximately 15,000 miles of and approximately six weeks of travel over the span of three years.
As long as I can remember, I have dreamed of traveling to the Rocky Mountains. Early in my adulthood, I visited a traveling exhibit at the Knoxville Museum of Art, in Knoxville, TN entitled, 'American Grandeur.' The pieces of the exhibit that drew me in were by painters Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. Their romantic environmental images of the American west were the beginnings of my interest in visiting the west. Fast forward the clock a number of years later and I was struck with the goal of finally visiting the west. After one trip, I was hooked. Now with each visit chase the light, the fog, the open blue skies, other-worldly rock formations, the spires and peaks of the mountains and quietness of remote locations that the famous painters portrayed.
Closer to home I photograph cityscapes, from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Lake Erie shore and lighthouses, and the scenic waterfalls and vistas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.
If you would like to see more of my work, please feel free to visit my website, at: http://jenngrover.com
Jennifer Grover joined Pixels.com Licensing on June 8th, 2012.
