Photography is to seeing what poetry is to writing: a way of thinking, a disciplined practice that produces insight, a condensed telling. Deciding where to point the camera, where to stand, I choose subject and stance. Framing the image, I place the threshold and shape the view, bringing certain features into dialogue, excluding others. I determine what should be sharp, what to blur, what should be highlighted, in shadow. To print a photograph, is to revisit time and place, recall light and mood, refine shades of meaning, and, sometimes, to find in the image things I had not seen. Photographs prompt and push my thinking: I let them speak and sort them as images first, seeking associations, before translating those insights into words. The whole process, from first look to final print, from single image to sequence, tunes my eye and changes how and what I see. If I am fortunate, the world appears new, and I know where to stand.

Seeing is a creative act. What I see is a measure of who I am, what I value and what I know. There are many ways to look at a landscape or a photograph, many perspectives. I expect and hope you will see in these images some things I did not intend and will read in your own meanings.

Click on "?" for some questions I ask myself when looking at landscape.