Fine Art Nature Photography for Healthcare and Wellness
As more of us settle into new work environments, whether it be extra safety measures in existing spaces or finding new workspaces at home, it’s important to create spaces that encourage focus, creativity and stress reduction. How can you do this? Well, placing your office in the middle of a forest or moving your desk ...
Effective healthcare environments are ones that become an extension of their communities and evolve based on the needs of those they serve. One such facility is Phelp’s Memorial Health Center in Holdredge, NE. Because this project was an expansion of their existing clinic, an important aspect when designing the ...
90% of our time is spent indoors.* That’s a shocking amount of time, especially considering all the benefits of being in and around nature. One of the takeaways of living through this pandemic is realizing how and where we spend our time. Being in offices, working from home, spending time in classrooms, going inside ...
I recently photographed some beautiful blue hydrangea in my studio in downtown Omaha. A former client requested new images of this flower I had taken years ago. I jumped at the chance to revisit this gorgeous flower with its unique shades of purple and blue. It made me think about the work I do every ...
Time spent exploring is never wasted and, in the end, it just might be the thing that keeps you growing and moving forward.
We are halfway through 2020 and I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say most of us are not in a place we expected to be. We have faced varying degrees of change and uncertainty this year, and no one has seen this more than our healthcare community. As we all look for ways to ...
What if I told you there were some simple ways of improving patient outcomes, increasing employment satisfaction, decreasing turnover, ultimately leading to a more whole body approach to wellness in healthcare facilities? According to Steven Kellert in his book “Nature by Design,” we now spend 90% of ...
We know better than anyone the calming, stress-reducing effect nature images can have on people who are feeling anxious and overwhelmed. So, when thinking of how we could support healthcare workers during what has been an extremely difficult time, we came up with the idea to combine images of bright flowers and calm, blue ...
“Because, in the end, I can think of no more nobler cause, than bringing comfort to someone going through a difficult time.”– Kurt Johnson During these challenging times, the importance of healthcare design is being brought to the forefront again, and, with good reason. Even before social ...
Mother nature never goes out of style, but over the past several months, we have seen the popularity of vector graphics in healthcare design increase. Vector graphics are interpretations of our images with a more stylized sensibility, maintaining photo realism but with unlimited scalability. According to Manda ...