I Think Landscape Photography In General Is

Often When I Walked Alone In The Mountains, I Tried To Make Sense Out Of The Two Halves Of My Life. What Went On In The City During The Week Seemed Chaotic And Unrelated To The Events In My Mountain World.

I Like To Feel That All My Best Photographs Had Strong Personal Visions And That A Photograph That Doesn't Have A Personal Vision Or Doesn't Communicate Emotion Fails.

I Think That Cognitive Scientists Would Support The View That Our Visual System Does Not Directly Represent What Is Out There In The World And That Our Brain Constructs A Lot Of The Imagery That We Believe We Are Seeing.

My Interest In Photography Did Not Begin With Books Or Mentors, Or With Any Burning Desire To See The World Through A Camera. It Evolved From An Intense Devotion To Mountains And Wilderness That Eventually Shaped All The Parts Of My Life And Brought Them Together.

Small, Portable Digital Cameras That Exceed The Performance Of An Off-the-shelf Nikon Using 35mm Slide Film Are Further Away From Current Reality Than The Proposed Nasa Manned Mars Mission, Although I Expect Both To Happen Sometime During My Lifetime.