Artist Statement
Interdimensional colleagues asked to be photographed and I obliged. This began my personal journey of learning to accurately convey interdimensional energy via the medium of digital photography.
My work as a nature spirit photographer is a result of my professional work as an interdimensional communicator. I negotiate with life forms in many dimensions on behalf of a client’s personal issues or those of their land. This has made me aware that all of existence is pulsing with life and perfectly capable of communicating with us, if all parties wish to communicate and can locate the correct frequency to do so.
Life forms grand and humble intermingle with our human lives every day and affect how we feel, think and act. My photographs explore this pulsating life that plays with us throughout nature – in rocks, trees, plants, water, and light.
This new field of spirit photography is emerging thanks to digital cameras and computer technology; and to the thinning of the veils between dimensions that is occurring as we move into our next world age. Quantum physics comes the closest to explaining how spirit photographs can occur, for this science has discovered that the intent of the observer affects the condition of the observed.
I have found that my nature spirit photographs are much more distinct after I get into "the zone" – that special frequency where I have fully identified with the spirit of place. In this zone I am in communication with the nature spirits, who assist me to capture specific images they want humans to understand. I work with a broad range of friendly life forms, who reside in different frequency bands and have their own specifically defined roles and personalities. This awareness can be seen in my photographs, where even the orb spirits are very distinct in colors and shapes.
My photographs are shot with a Nikon D-80 digital camera. I use 100 ISO and in general no flash, relying instead on a tripod and a long exposure time; this helps capture subtle images often more visible in strong light and shadow situations. Images are processed in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom, with no changes other than color correction and the use of Photoshop tools to sharpen the image. Prints are made on an Epson printer with color saturated pigment on archival paper, each large photographic art print limited to 500.
Atala Dorothy Toy
