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Dan Abernathy is known for his art, photography and as a vagabond who walks in dreams of a pure, hedonistic life. This Renaissance man is also known as a writer and a poet, with some of the most illogical views and inspirations seen, or heard. His voice, be it in his words or his art, is a collection of oddities, fascinations, desires, and obsessions – a road map of sorts, tracking the life of a man that can't and won't fit in, but has chosen to wear his life on his sleeve for others to wonder about.
     Abernathy picked up his first camera in his 13th year, the first year of his image-fueled life. Publishing his first photograph in the months following sparked Abernathy's enduring passion. The inspiration he drew from his camera became a driving force; to capture a moment in time and preserve it for others to absorb became his obsession. He has been creating distinctive photographic works ever since. He has devoted his life to perceiving the world through the lens of a camera and capturing poignant images, but knowingly admits that some sights and experiences are better exposed with the pen than the camera.
    The myriad images Abernathy has composed through his wanderlust range from war-torn countries to the people and natural scenes of Wyoming. They have been awarded national and international recognition and publication. Abernathy has been commissioned to photograph for Time Magazine, Hard Copy [magazine?], Chevrolet, and Marlboro, among others, and American Cowboy magazine ran his Western portraiture and feature column, "Glimpses."
    For Abernathy, photography is a means of sharing how he sees and interprets the world we all share. He continues to expand his creativity in hopes of bringing new perspectives of the world to each viewer. Though the camera viewfinder is small, the artistic eye of this photographer is capable of capturing images that expand the views of others. Upon discovering Abernathy's collection, Lauren Collins wrote, "It's new enough for me that it's gruesome, beautiful, and confusing all at once. It's Picasso (style), Pollack (medium), and Weston (subject) combined."
     Abernathy left his hometown, Bayfield, Colorado, to join the U.S. Army in 1976, serving in the 1st of the 509th Airborne Battalion Combat Team in Italy before incurring injuries in a parachute jump. Following his recovery in hospitals in Germany and Colorado, he joined the 1st of the 10th Mounted Color Guard at Fort Carson, Colorado.
    Since 1980, Abernathy's home base has been Pinedale, Wyoming, but he is most comfortable when he is on the road. His visual life expands and evolves as he travels the globe on alert for new sights to capture and experience. Abernathy's devotion to photography, writing and travel continues to lead him all over the world to compose and share. For, "what best describes an artist is the same thing which describes an adventurer," he writes. "The longing for something intense, grand, revolutionary, new horizons with different natural laws."
    Abernathy maintains online gallery and a blog to make available all his perspectives frozen in frames as well as the fluid, "random thoughts, often meandering and incomplete, rants, praise, love, words of meaning, and words of too much meaning."