Datz Special Edition book available

The special edition (20) of Life Narrated by Nature is now available from Datz Press. On the box are gold stars representing Ursa Major, my favorite constellation. For all my life, I have loved looking at the night sky, and for almost as long I’ve looked for the Big Dipper first, an asterism within the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, or the greater she-bear. I love bears. I have spent much time looking for wild bears in the daytime (and I am lucky to have seen quite a few), and then looking at the Great Bear at night. It was important to me for the photo of a bear to appear in my book. People around the world, perhaps since pre-history, have recognized Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper, and have created wonderful names and origin stories for it. I also love that the two stars at the end of the Big Dipper’s bowl point to Polaris, our North Star, the point that gives us direction, that guides our way.

The book is expensive — $600 — but each one includes an original, editioned, signed and numbered print made with pigment, gampi and gold leaf. The cost of a print normally is more than the price of this book. Each book also includes a special edition pigment print on Hahnemuhle.