In My Mind I Needed A Symbol

I Took A Workshop From Him A Few Months After That. That Experience Changed My Whole Approach To Photography. At That Workshop In Yosemite In 1973 I Decided I Wanted To Try And See If I Could Pursue This For Myself, And I'm Still Trying.

And As Part Of My Activity There, He Had Indicated He Wanted Me To Work With Him On That And Conduct The Various Technical Tests. And So A Few Months Later I Moved From Southern California Up To The Monterey Peninsula Where I Still Live Today.

So To Me It's Very Similar In Terms Of Trying To Distill Within The Image, Those Elements That Are Gonna Form, Hopefully, A Compelling Visual Statement.

It Had Rained On Some Vivid Green Ferns In Maine And It Was Quite Beautiful. I Was Moving The Camera Slightly And Studying The Ground Glass. Looking At Those 20 Square Inches, Trying To Find Out Just What Were The Right Elements To Include.

The First Day At The Power Plant I Found Myself Photographing Some Steam Vents On The Roof Of The Structure. And I Remember Consciously Thinking That They Were Just Like Trees But They Were Metal.