A Revealing Insight into the Nature of Ecology and Environment

A revealing insight into the Nature of Ecology and Environment through the sentient art of James Tallon and his camera

James Tallon is not a photographer burdened with a vast amount of cumbersome gear. In his hands the camera is a fascinating instrument into which he injects a personal equation of relationship. No one else we know uses a camera in the Tallon style and manner. His transparencies reveal a quick, accurate and clinical eye. Each frame is a design composition. Whatever the subject Tallon's photographs have an exceptional quality expressing a unity of pictorial appeal and thought-stimulating textual content. After almost a quarter-century of professional shooting Jim Tallon has accumulated a collection of several thousand photographs noted for beauty and a graphic excellence achieved by a near perfect degree of technical expertise. The accompanying portfolio illustrates why James Tallon, photographer-journalist has been published in more than 200 national and international publications including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Modern Photography, True, National Wildlife, Arizona Magazine, Life, Time-Life Books, Reader's Digest Books, and Arizona Highways.James Tallon is a member of the Outdoor Writers' Association of America and Outdoor Photographers League. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona 85017, at 5639 North 34th Avenue.

THE DREAM OF LIFE

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly I awoke, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chuang Tzu From "THE HEART HAS ITS SEASONS" a book of outstanding photographs, poems and readings compiled and edited by Louis M. Savary, S.J., and Thomas J. O'Connor, with photographs by Laurence B. Fink. Published by Regina Press, New York, 1971.

THE LAND AND ITS INHABITANTS

The ecological structure and balance of the southwest is as complex as it is beautiful . . .

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES TALLON

... as rugged as the mountains and as delicate as the fragrance of desert blossoms ... as carefree as the Cactus Wren and as mysterious as the seldom seen Diamondback Rattlesnake. When it rains the desert is lush and green, when it doesn't it is dry and parched. One day a fantasy land, the next day stark reality ... but every day it is a land of truth to itself and its inhabitants.The long-eared Rocky Mountain Mule Deer is also called the Blacktail Deer and found throughout Arizona and the west.

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Home... where is home? Home for what? Home for whom? The land is home! A lazy road winds its way across the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona. A tee-pee is an oddity here, but then the unexpected is to be expected. We come on to two wild burros. The young one eyes the photographer with curiosity and ears forward, the old one with distrust and ears back. Everywhere in this vast country one can see monumental beauty ... and it is reflected in the faces of those who call this land "home."

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES TALLON