Thom Dunlavey's photostream  

Welcome to my gallery and thank you for taking the time to view my art. Much of what I do is a personal recollection of my life and thus the lives intertwined to mine.

It is a representation of the world as I see it; moments of organized chaos that result in creation and beauty. The world is full of beauty, so much that it's not enough to just see it. My photographs and creations are my visual representations of how I feel the world - A romanticized view of something that sometimes is not nearly as romantic as it could be.

I hope that somehow these pictures and creations of mine reach out to you on a personal level. My main intent with most of my art is to learn to appreciate everything. Photographs help me to recollect and recount some of my favorite memories.

I normally try to keep things simple in my pictures. Very little post-processing. Just me, my camera, my tripod (sometimes) and my eyes. I like to capture things in their natural states and with as little posing as possible.

I'm not asking for my art to be important or really mean something to you. Instead, base your judgment on intent. In all honesty, I'm hoping for you to walk away from this with a new outlook on life - the kind that can only be wrought from the empathy and compassion of the understanding and the devotion I have for the things and other human beings that make my life what it is. The way I see it, if you can see things my way, then that's something.