Conrad proudly works in the tradition pioneered by giants of the field including Weston, Adams and Porter, unabashedly using “straight” photography to achieve his vision of letting the world speak for itself while minimizing artist intervention. He reveres earth, water, sky, and all that naturally dwells there, as well as the human edifices within, attempting to reveal their beauty and essence just as they are—faithfully and honestly as he sees and feels them in the moment. Conrad’s images often highlight the tension between two fundamental states, order and disorder, and two elemental geometries, euclidian and fractal, the former of human construct and the latter intrinsic to nature.