About the Artist Through the lens of his camera, Photographer Alan Kepler is our personal witness to the simple grandeur of creation and the miracles that surround us in the natural world. With an artist's eye, he captures the magic of the wilderness in his photographic images, pure and un-enhanced by any contemporary technological gimmickry. In fact, he never uses color filters to enhance his images or modify them to be more than what he witnessed at the moment the shutter was snapped. With the proliferation of the personal computer, Photoshop and digital technology in general, photography has undergone a monumental revolution. Most professional photographers today regard the computer as one of their indispensable tools. This technology has had many wonderful benefits. Restoring damaged or defective film, archiving, Internet galleries, and advances in printmaking are just a few of the incredible new resources available for the photographer today. However, this powerful new technology carries with it the potential to misrepresent the natural world as seen through the lens of the photographer, by the use of digital manipulation. Digital art certainly has its place, but the improper alteration of natural photographs can only serve to erode the trust that generations have held for the photographic image. There is a wonderful quote by Ansel Adams where he proclaims, not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Those sentiments were accurate twenty years ago— but this is sadly no longer the case. Alan counts himself among those landscape photographers that strongly believe standards for honesty in photography must be recognized and preserved. He is adamant in his refusal to compromise either the truth in nature or his own integrity as an artist. Attempting to enhance the magic of nature by altering what was before his camera would make a mockery of the sublime power of God’s creation and the inspiring legacy of masters from Giorgio Sommer to Ansel Adams, in whose footsteps he follows.