Seeing is my joy. I have always been drawn to light, color, patterns, and lines, seemingly the conduit to an array of senses and memories, the essence of my experiences outdoors. I suppose that is the main reason I took to photography. The camera was, at first, a tool to document and capture those experiences, eventually becoming an extension of my interpretation of those experiences. I do indeed interpret. I began my work by learning how to finesse the constraints of physics, of film, and of equipment to attempt to capture a feeling. I then worked with view cameras, allowing me to control film planes, lens planes, and other physics-bending techniques that allowed even more freedom to interpret and express. Therefore, I have never felt any compunction to render anything with absolute accuracy. Film and cameras have never allowed accuracy in terms of paralleling human experiences of any given scene. We have always made artistic decisions, what to include, what to leave out, which tones to forsake in a medium that is unable to see like eyes do. Instead, we make choices within the constraints of the tools to hopefully capture the thing that makes somebody feel something. That is why photography and now, photography editing, is truly an art form.
