David Cook’s work is inspired by his training as a Texas Master Naturalist, a passion for the natural world, and by Rachel Carson’s book The Sense of Wonder. A sense of wonder, she wrote: “…so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.”

His photography explores his own sense of wonder and hopefully can inspire others to find and nurture their sense of wonder as well.

He describes himself as a photonaturalist rather than a nature photographer because he does more than take photos of nature. He studies the natural world and finds art in the intersection between the light and the living world.

He hopes these images spark your sense of wonder with nature as well.