Con Slobodchikoff has been doing abstract photographs for a number of years. He first started photographing abstract patterns in nature, and won Natural History Magazine's Grand Prize in 1980 for an abstract photograph of a yucca plant partially immersed in a white sand dune.

Zen Koan Visions represents seeing the world through its many layers in our search for enlightenment.

Shadows respresents our struggle to break out of our limited world, seeking the sun as in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.