Often When I Walked Alone In The

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.

Theres No Question That Photographs Communicate More Instantly And Powerfully Than Words Do, But If You Want To Communicate A Complex Concept Clearly, You Need Words, Too.

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.

At The Heart Of All Photography Is An Urge To Express Our Deepest Personal Feelings - To Reveal Our Inner, Hidden Selves, To Unlock The Artist. Those Of Us Who Become Photographers Are Never Satisfied With Just Looking At Someone Else's Expression Of Something That Is Dear To Us. We Must Produce Our Own Images, Instead Of Buying Postcards And Photo Books. We Seek To Make Our Own Statements Of Individuality.

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.