Terry Amburgey's photographs supply the raw material for visual narratives that offer "a personal story to each person viewing the work."

His exhibit, Tripping The Light Fantastic: The Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, will be on display Sept. 20 through Oct. 10 at the Agora Gallery, 415 West Broadway, SoHo. A reception will take place on Thursday, Sept. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m.

In Amburgey's art, a contemplative reverence for nature is revealed through landscape compositions of breathtaking scope, bursting with brilliant hues of mountain mists and fading light.

Through muted reflections in black and white, Amburgey captures the primal relationship of seascapes, rivers and ponds to sun and moon. He also delights in the textural complexities of objects by studies of light filtering through glass beads as well as the luminous images created by reflecting surfaces of holiday ornaments.

Amburgey, a resident of Massapequa, unleashes the same enthusiasm for cityscapes as he does landscapes, contrasting his pensive reverence for nature with a frenetic appreciation of the surreal and artificial beauty of urban light and architecture. Terry Amburgey's photographs offer the viewer entry into a dualistic world of pastoral splendor and cosmopolitan marvel.