I am connected to a sense of the sacred by my reverence and my personal relationship with God. I also acknowledge that He is the creator of everything. So, as a nature photographer, I find a sense of the sacred in a walk in the woods, a stroll on the beach, or a hike in the mountains. I find it looking through my viewfinder at the delightful surprises in nature–snapping a photo of a vibrant Painted Bunting only to find when looking at the photo, its mate, camouflaged by the green of the leaves, is perched close by, my first sighting of a breath-taking Lazuli Bunting, a copperhead stretched across the trail, basking in the sun, an explosion of gold from a field of flowers, catching sight of a doe and her fawns when I least expected it. The sense of sacred comes when I recognize that they are not here by some cataclysmic freak of nature, but that they were all created by God as a gift to mankind.