For many years, my trips to Redwood National Park awakened me to the extraordinary beauty of the massive, towering redwood trees. I noticed in a number of the images that I made there, however, that there were numerous rhododendron bushes in close proximity to the redwoods, but I never found them in bloom, usually arriving in the mid- to late summer period, after the flowers had fallen. I vowed that one day, I would return and find those rhododendrons in full bloom. Finally, this year I timed it exactly right and made a series of images that seem to have a special story — the merging of the power of the redwoods and the delicate beauty of the flowering rhododendrons. These images are fresh and still emerging as I process them, but I am delighted by what I feel to be a wonderful expression of the power of photographic images to convey many emotions. I hope that the viewer enjoys them as well.
