Jim Thurman’s lifelong love of photography reaches far back to a Florida middle school. There he joined a camera club, and with the help of his Kodak Pony 828, he trained his eye on anything that moved.
Today his primary interest is in another sort of movement—the kind that comes from the expansiveness of spiritual understanding. When asked if he wanted to provide a photo for this article, Jim immediately chose a sunrise. “I love the promise of dawn,” he said, referring to this shot taken on one of the “gratitude walks” he and his wife, Gaelynn, take near their St. Petersburg, Florida, home. “Dawn offers up such a widened, spiritual view. That glorious light of a new sense of being that’s always expanding.”
But Jim’s quick to add that he finds this same promise beyond the skies and sea birds and manatees—he loves to take photographs of high-rises, factories, and structured forms, too. “That’s infinity for you, “ he laughs. “Grace and beauty, unbounded.”
