Metzker's landscapes are unconventional, close-up views of nature that replicate what a hiker might see while pushing through dense woods. Sometimes branches are right in your face. The foreground can be blurry, and spatial definition might be ambiguous.
Some prints look like exercises in camouflage.
Occasionally, deep shadows erase details and create confusing shapes. You don't always know quite where you are in Metzker's landscapes. His eye for the particular eliminates consideration of the whole. He photographs in black and white, so you don't have familiar colors to help establish a frame of reference. And, in its individual parts, consistently beautiful.