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I get a euphoric sense as I engage a mental escape mechanism from the real world around me when I look at this work, my Kinetic Ambiguity Project. Using a lot of camera movement with long exposures, I try to make it easy to see the purposeful blurring in my images. I do this to create the illusion of moving much faster than I actually am. The blurring, along with my style of digital postproduction, creates these fantastical works. Joshua Trees, power lines, mountainous horizons, center pivot irrigations systems, and others, make up the principal characters in this story I'm telling about the high desert – in particular, the south-western edge of the Mojave Desert. The view is mostly from the roads between the Antelope Valley and the Victor Valley. The Land Series is my interpretation of landscape photography. The Vistas Segment of the Land Series is primarily horizon views with a large helping of foreground and background. I hope you enjoy chapter one as much as I do.

Edward Lance Montgomery wants to share his creations of manipulated light with you. His passion is photographic art which he renders with his signature post-production formula, creating unique yet familiar and engaging pieces. Edward has participated in art exhibitions, written art reviews, curated art shows, and has work in the Target Corporation collection. He is a 2014 honors graduate of California State University, San Bernardino with a BA in studio art (concentration photography) and a minor in business administration. By way of a 20-year Army career, Edward has lived around the world. But he has returned to his home state of California and currently lives in the high desert city of Victorville.