I haven’t been making much photography lately, things have been put on hold for various reasons one of them being I spent most of my week in bed (thanks Swine Flu!…I think) but I took the opportunity to read and look through a lot of books, one of which was the Ecotopia book that I picked up after viewing a show with the same name at the International Center of Photography during my first ever visit to New York City a few years ago. Besides seeing that, unexpectedly and inspiringly one of my former classmates Kayana Szymczak (before either of us went to OU) was in the show, I came across an image that stopped me in my tracks. Or, in my page turning at least. I guess you’re not making tracks when you’re sick in bed but anyways. German Photographer Yannick Demmerle’s images of the forest are simple but stunning. And the real prints, well, I remember staring at this larger than life rendition of a night time forest in the NYC Gallery and was almost taken to a world where I was wondering how I the hell I was going to find my way out of this strange woods in the night wherever this woods was.

Image by Yannick Demmerle