When I Go To The Mountains, I

I Like To Feel That All My Best Photographs Had Strong Personal Visions And That A Photograph That Doesn't Have A Personal Vision Or Doesn't Communicate Emotion Fails.

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.

Today, I'm Very Careful Not To Mention Very Specific Locations When I Write Or Give Captions.

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.

You Only Get One Sunrise And One Sunset A Day, And You Only Get So Many Days On The Planet. A Good Photographer Does The Math And Doesn't Waste Either.