Obviously, the medium of photography is a completely different medium than bead making or landscape design.

Your first portrait of Rick says it all -and creates a perfect introduction to your photo essay…

The tiny rare chevrons would be so small in person, that (to most non chevron collectors)

they would be hard-to-like without blowing up your images on our computer screens.

And the context of the idealized "natural" landscape adds romantic drama to the wild

dream of an early Venetian's Explorers' diaspora and his beads.

Your photography facilitates identification with Rick's singleness of purpose.

Thank you for your access, insight and vision into Richard Patterson's World of Wonders.

Frederick