We Rely, I Think, On Landscape Photography

Philosophy Can Forsake Too Easily The Details Of Experience… Many Writers And Painters Have Demonstrated That Thinking Long About What Art Is Or Ought To Be Ruins The Power To Write Or Paint.

Why Do Most Great Pictures Look Uncontrived? Why Do Photographers Bother With The Deception, Especially Since It So Often Requires The Hardest Work Of All? The Answer Is, I Think, That The Deception Is Necessary If The Goal Of Art Is To Be Reached: Only Pictures That Look As If They Had Been Easily Made Can Convincingly Suggest That Beauty Is Commonplace.

Of All The Sacred Places On The Coast, None Is More Comforting Than Where Rivers Join The Sea. By The River's Disappearance We Are Reminded Of Life's Passing, While By The Ocean's Beauty We Accept It, In A Hope We Cannot Explain.

Your Own Photography Is Never Enough. Every Photographer Who Has Lasted Has Depended On Other Peoples Pictures Too - Photographs That May Be Public Or Private, Serious Or Funny, But That Carry With Them A Reminder Of Community.

We Have Names For Everything. What If We Forgot About Those Names? And We Stopped Seeing Things As Something? What If We Just Observed Things, Watched Things, Without Giving Them A Name, Without Coming To A Conclusion? What Do You Think Would Happen? You Would Transcend Everything.