Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

Seek freedom within action.

Photography’s potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

I don’t trust any camera you can’t make out of wood.

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

I use my music to tune myself.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind‘s eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

I work to attain a ‘state of heart’, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one’s vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.