Photographers have captured landscape images for years, but none have turned the images into stunning and unique works of art like Beth Thompson has.

“Cedar on Marsh,” a kaleidoscope image, is one of Beth Thompson’s photographs on display in Five Points this month.

As a local artist, Thompson has designed many beautiful images of photography in the forms of tarots, kaleidoscopes, and fractals.

Thompson describes her works as being interconnected since each one bounces off of and inspires the others.

“The bodies are linked together in a few ways,” said Thompson. “Firstly, they almost always have some natural element.”

Thompson says that since she finds peace in nature and enjoys photographing nature, all three bodies of art rely on the natural images of the world. She takes the images and alters them into her own unique pieces.

“Another way the bodies are linked is that they are meditative,” she said. “I get lost in each image and flow through the piece and find myself in a meditative state. Even sometimes when I am creating the image, I get lost in it.”

The final way the pieces are linked according to Thompson is that they are all abstract.

“I start with a simple photograph and then I manipulate the images into the fractals or kaleidoscopes,” she said.

Thompson’s tarot cards have been a project ten years in the making. She has been designing the cards with the intention of creating a tarot deck featuring 78 different images.

“I am definitely beginning to see the light at the end of the tarot card tunnel,” said Thompson. “I’m down to the last thirty or so cards, and when the deck is complete it will be available for purchase.”

The cards feature layered images which Thompson has carefully designed. Some of the cards feature 3-D images with photograph components other than nature.

“Sometimes people and cities will show up in the tarots,” Thompson said. “The tarots push me further and gets me using something other than landscape.”

“Thompson’s pieces are currently on exhibit at Strand Hair Salon in Five Points. The images will be on display throughout all of January. Her pieces can also be found and purchased in a variety of size and canvas on her Web site.

“I want to be able to share these bodies with as many people as I can,” she said.