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All prints are handmade by Peter Ralston on archival rag paper with an archival ink set.

Small Matted Prints - This collection is printed on 8.5 x 11 inch sheets, matted, ready to be framed.

New Work - This open edition is a collection of images created since January 2004. They are printed on 17 x 22 inch sheets.

The Master Prints - This limited edition (LE) collection of 25 images were selected as especially important to the artist. This edition is limited to 50 prints of each image plus ten artist proofs (AP). They are printed on 24 x 36 inch sheets.

Custom sizes of this image are available by special request.

The story behind The Source

Terri was still asleep back in a friend’s home on Criehaven and I was out for an early morning walk with dog and camera. As I poked around the small harbor, I came upon this arrangement and immediately thought of love and faith, not to be at all confused with religion.

I believe that love and faith are the primary sources of goodness in this world…hence the title. Conversely, I believe that the absence of either quality is the source of most societal malaise.

Oh, there is one more thing; the dear friends, in whose home we were staying out there, were directly responsible for me getting back into photography after the six-year hiatus in which I did not pick up a camera after a grave illness. It was their love and faith that were the source of my getting back on the horse from which I had been thrown. The source, indeed.