Today, I'm Very Careful Not To Mention

If We Limit Our Vision To The Real World, We Will Forever Be Fighting On The Minus Side Of Things, Working Only Too Make Our Photographs Equal To What We See Out There, But No Better.

Ever Since The 1860s When Photographers Travelled The American West And Brought Photographs Of Scenic Wonders Back To The People On The East Coast Of America We Have Had A North American Tradition Of Landscape Photography Used For The Environment.

I Began Taking Pictures In The Natural World To Be Able To Show People What I Was Experiencing When I Climbed And Explored In Yosemite In The High Sierra.

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.

When The Light Is Right And Everything Is Working For Me, I Feel As Tense As When Making A Difficult Maneuver High On A Mountain. A Minute - And Sometimes Mere Seconds - Can Make The Difference Between A Superb Image And A Mundane One.