Greetings, I Am Pleased To See That

My Wife And I Are Affiliated With A Temple Here In Los Angeles. We Feel Very Close To The Congregation And To The Rabbi, Who Happens To Be My Wife's Cousin And Who I Admire Greatly. I Talk To Him Regularly But I Consider Myself More Spiritual Than Religious.

I Believe In Goodness, Mercy And Charity. I Believe In Casting Bread Upon The Waters.

There Are A Lot Of Photographers Who Have Influenced Me; Some Of The Great Ones, Like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, And [alfred] Stieglitz. I Draw From All Of Them. You're Supposed To Steal From The Good Ones.

Essentially, In Photography, I Think On Two Levels: One Emotional And The Other Technical. The Emotional Impact Has To Do With Looking For Something Dramatic Happening In The Photograph, Something That Reaches Out And Touches Somebody In Some Way. And The Technical Is Having To Do With Composition And Framing - Light And Dark, Light And Shadow.

I Did Not Move Into Developing Or Processing Color. I Stayed With Black And White. I Still Think To This Day That I Prefer To Work In Black And White If It Has To Do With Poetry Or Anything Other Than Specific Reality. I Have Worked In Color When I Thought It Was The Appropriate Way To Express The Thought That I Was Working On