Well, You Know, The Mind Is Nothing.

Our Universe Is A Sea Of Energy - Free, Clean Energy. It Is All Out There Waiting For Us To Set Sail Upon It.

The Photographer Hopes, In Brief, To Discover A Tension So Exact That It Is Peace.

Landscape Pictures Can Offer Us, I Think, Three Verities: Geography, Autobiography, And Metaphor. Geography Is, If Taken Alone, Sometimes Boring, Autobiography Is Frequently Trivial, And Metaphor Can Be Dubious. But Taken Together, As In The Best Work Of People Like Alfred Stieglitz And Edward Weston, The Three Kinds Of Information Strengthen Each Other And Reinforce What We All Work To Keep Intact - The Affection For Life.

... If We Consider The Difference Between William Henry Jackson Packing In His Camera By Mule, And The Person Stepping For A Moment From His Car To Take A Picture With His Instamatic, It Becomes Clear How Some Of Our Space Has Vanished; If The Time It Takes To Cross Space Is A Way By Which We Define It, Then To Arrive At A View Of Space 'in No Time' Is To Have Denied Its Reality.

Your Own Photography Is Never Enough. Every Photographer Who Has Lasted Has Depended On Other Peoples Pictures Too - Photographs That May Be Public Or Private, Serious Or Funny, But That Carry With Them A Reminder Of Community.