It's In The Silence That

We Rely, I Think, On Landscape Photography To Make Intelligible To Us What We Already Know.

I Began Making Pictures Because I Wanted To Record What Supports Hope: The Untranslatable Mystery And Beauty Of The World. Along The Way, However, The Camera Also Caught Evidence Against Hope, And I Eventually Concluded That This, Too, Belonged In Pictures If They Were To Be Truthful And Thus Useful.

Art Depends On There Being Affection In Its Creator's Life And An Artist Must Find Ways, Like Everyone Else, To Nourish It. A Photographer Down On His Or Her Knees Picturing A Dog Has Found Pleasure Enough To Make Many Things Possible.

... 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.

Deep Down In Your Heart Know That All Is Well. Understand That The Universe Is Your Friend And Can Never Hurt You. It Is The Substratum Of All Existence Which Is Love! When You Develop A Loving Consciousness There Can Be No Problems. Love Takes Care Of Everything. Love Is The Same As Absolute Awareness, Pure Intelligence, Or The Power Of God. When You Have Enough Love Inside, There Are Truly No Problems. Problems Only Arise When You Believe You Are Separate And Lacking Love.