The Only Things That Distinguish The Photographer

Many Have Asked, Pointing Incredulously Toward A Sweep Of Tract Homes And Billboards, Why Picture That? The Question Sounds Simple, But It Implies A Difficult Issue - Why Open Our Eyes Anywhere But In Undamaged Places Like National Parks?

The Suburban West Is, From A Moral Perspective, Depressing Evidence That We Have Misused Our Freedom. There Is, However, Another Aspect To The Landscape, An Unexpected Glory. Over The Cheap Tracts And Littered Arroyos One Sometimes See A Light As Clean As That Recorded By O'sullivan. Since It Owes Nothing To Our Care, It Is An Assurance; Beauty Is Final.

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.

Nature Photography... That Acknowledges What Is Wrong, Is Admittedly Sometimes Hard To Bear - It Has To Encompass Our Mistakes. Yet In The Long Run, It Is Important; In Order To Endure Our Age Of Apocalypse, We Have To Be Reconciled Not Only To Avalanche And Hurricane, But To Ourselves.

You Are Before Being And Not Being, Awake And Dream Take Place In Time. You Have No Time.