Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 0-9668619-3-0
Author: Tom Murphy
Pages: 140

The Comfort of Autumn

by Tom Murphy

There is a delicate lightness in each individual life in relationship to the whole universe, yet each unique life contributes something important to the unified force of all existence. Autumn is the season when life can be at rest in comfortable peace in life's constantly spinning push to appear and grow. It is a time when the earth can take a deep breath and show off its colors, when the bison cow can play as she did when she was a calf. The vibrant and varied colors of vegetation unique to autumn appear only after the overpowering green chlorophyll evaporates. In the furious push to grown, replicate and reproduce, the engines of life in green plants are driven by this surge of chlorophyll. Underneath this green all along is the color of the basic structure of the plants. Only after the completion of this growth and the abandonment of the mask of chlorophyll are their true colors revealed.

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About the Author

Tom Murphy's photographic passion and specialty is Yellowstone Park. Since 1975 he has traveled extensively within its 3400 square miles, hiking thousands of miles and skiing on dozens of extended overnight trips in the backcountry. His photographs have been used in numerous regional, national, and international publications. Clients include Life, Architectural Digest, National Geographic, Audubon, and Time. Magazines such as Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Esquire, and others have sent him on assignments. His first book, Silence and Solitude, Yellowstone's Winter Wilderness, won a 2002 Montana Book Award. The video "Silence and Solitude" produced by Montana Public Television, earned an Emmy nomination for Tom's photography.

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