A native Texan, born and reared in Houston and Central Texas, with some roots in Louisiana, David Matthew Collins captures an eclectic group of photographs from his many excursions into the wild and civilization. He has been deeply involved in many areas of photography for several years.  
 
David intensely studied many subjects from numerous art history courses while at Texas State University. He was fascinated with drawing and painting, but soon developed a stronger appreciation of Texas nature. Beginning when digital photography was something to scoff at, he eventually came to absorb that aspect of the field along with chemistry, optics, color theory, light and the elements and principles of design.

Whether he employed an antique camera or a slick digital SLR point and shoot, he captures the varying delicate facets of life that are frequently neglected. Living in the Texas Hill Country has afforded him the opportunities to capture the life and soul of the hills in his photographs.

A quote from David……..

" One summer, I became fascinated with photography on a trip to Fredericksburg, Texas. The sky had been black with threatening clouds of rain. I had decided to sit outside and observe this thunderstorm. Suddenly, a portion of the sky opened up to reveal a brilliant orange cloudscape, while the other half of the sky was pitch black. I rushed back into my room and grabbed my instant camera to photograph the scene; needless to say the image did not capture the scene as I had remembered it. The dispiritedness I felt led me to a solid desire for the first few years to capture another heavenly cloudscape. As time passed, I began to realize that this would never materialize, as nature never repeats itself quite the same.

This realization was also made apparent to me in my photographs of other aspects of nature…. water, trees, wildlife and etc, and keeping this in mind has helped to shape my responsiveness to my subject. In nature, there exists the ephemeral and the eternal; each of these subjects is unique, as time manipulates each of these things. An artist has a brief moment to interpret the beauty before their eyes, and then it becomes squandered. Nature represents the basic articulation of life, the struggle of constant redesign and maturation, for God's creations can leave a mark on a person for the rest of their life.

Therefore, that is the intension with my photography, to attempt to share the designs of nature with other people, by utilizing all the aspects of photography and art."

DMC 2005