(RALEIGH)—Experience nature through two sets of photographic lenses at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery. The gallery presents two variations of nature photography with an exhibition of the works of Jerry Ginsberg and Abe Ordover, December 6–January 5. Both photographers use similar images of the natural world to express different impressions of nature.

Jerry Ginsberg’s photographic images use light, color, form and texture to reproduce breathtaking, realistic landscapes. Ginsberg studied and photographed with some of the world’s foremost photographic artists, including the renowned David Muench. Extensively published, exhibited and honored, Ginsberg is working to photograph all 55 U.S. National Parks.

“To be out in the natural world, among the trees and rocks, the way nature has made and arranged them is, to me, one of life’s most satisfying things,” Ginsberg said. “I try to create images of our natural world; images that convey a sense of the untouched and unspoiled, those special places that retain the special aura of peace and creation.”

Abe Ordover’s artistic goal is not merely to document the landscape but to present the feelings that he experiences in nature, whether in the deserts of the American Southwest or the ice floes of Antarctica. In 1997 Ordover began to enhance his photographs using the Photoshop computer program. He “paints” images, sometimes intensifying colors or silhouetting sections he wishes to emphasize. He enhances what has been recorded until it corresponds with his own emotional response.

Ordover envisions nature as an artist, an ingenious maker of shapes and patterns. Nature works endlessly, turning icebergs and rock walls into amazing sculptural forms. “Nature paints with the rhythms of time to create undulating waves of sand, erosion and watery reflections,” critic John Mendelsohn said of Ordover’s work. “In Ordover’s eyes, nature’s aesthetic encompasses both starkness and beauty.”

The Nature Art Gallery, inside the Museum Store, hosts new exhibitions by Southern artists every six weeks. All exhibited art is for sale. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4:45 p.m.; and the first Friday of each month until 7 p.m. Admission is free. For a complete schedule of Nature Art Gallery exhibits, please visit www.naturalsciences.org or call the Museum Store at 919/733-7450, ext. 369.