About Don Weaver
For much of my life, I have been drawn to moments that ask us to slow down.
As a psychologist, I spent more than four decades helping people navigate change, loss, uncertainty, and growth — learning how to live more fully in the present rather than in remembered pasts or imagined futures. Over time, I began to notice that many of the same lessons revealed themselves quietly in the natural world, written not in words, but in light.
Before dawn, when the world is still and the sky begins to shift, something subtle happens. Edges soften. Perspective widens. What felt urgent the night before often feels different in the early light.
Photography became my way of entering that threshold — and inviting others into it.
Based in Colorado Springs, I rise before sunrise, drawn to the changing forces of light over mountains, valleys, open skies, and quiet neighborhoods. As day unfolds, that same light softens into evening and later returns in the quiet authority of the moon. Each transition — dawn, dusk, storm, eclipse, snowfall, moonrise — offers a moment in which perception changes and stillness becomes visible.
My work is less about spectacle than awareness. I am interested in the kind of seeing that slows us down long enough to notice wonder, presence, and connection.
Over the years, my creative life has taken many forms — photography, reflective writing, visual essays, contemplative projects, and explorations of perception itself. During doctoral research in Ghana, West Africa, I studied how culture influences visual perception, deepening a lifelong fascination with the ways human beings interpret reality. That fascination continues to shape my work today.
Whether photographing a quiet sunrise over Colorado Springs, the stillness of a winter moon, or the drama of storm light over Pikes Peak, I hope to create images that do more than decorate a wall. I hope they offer a pause. A widening. A reminder that even brief moments of attention can change how we experience our lives.
Through large-format metal prints, annual Sunrise Inspirations calendars, curated collections, writings, and digital installations, I create imagery designed to invite reflection, clarity, calm, and renewal.
If these images offer even a moment of presence, then they have done their work.
About Carol Weaver
I have always felt a spiritual connection to nature. The photographs at left show me at the age of 17 and today. So, when my husband Don and I relocated to Colorado Springs in 2016, I became enthralled with the beauty of the mountains and natural environment. This inspired me to create art that could celebrate my felt connection to nature – fibre art that could capture nature’s vibrant colors and stimulating tactile properties. I began this journey by crocheting original “yarnscapes” of Colorado nature scenes and then evolved to creating original 3D yarn art (“yarn sculptures”) integrating nature with the hyperbolic plane mathematical concept. Aptly, I call my present focus The Branching Out Series. I look forward to my continuing evolutionary journey.
