Grand, rich vistas of pastoral ponds, orchids and rolling trees grace Adam Klein’s [link to http://www.adamkleinphotography.com] sweeping portraits of nature’s grandiose splendor.  These ascetic photographs betray paterns within nature’s wilds and all spaces where matter is caught in cosmic battle with isolation and loneliness.  Contemplative yet dynamic and spirited, they are a metaphysical embracing of the marriage of air, space, and matter.  Born of elemental desires they call to mind the larger than life photographic work and manipulations of open spaces of Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Ansel Adams.  These pristine photographs of rich landscapes are the work of a craftsman with a brilliant eye towards the spiritual materiality of the universe