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My work has hung in various galleries, won a few things, published, used commerciall, for tourism, and is represented as stock. All those have little meaning and certainly no bragging rights. What is important, is if it speaks to you, fills your purpose, creates some meaning, stares back when you sit and stare at it and tells who or what we are.
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I photograph to preserve, to forget, to heighten awareness, to find and make peace, and to preserve. I photograph to tell a story, to create, to simplify, and to amplify. However, mostly I photograph to communicate. I remember one time, before I was married a couple of years ago, I took my wife on a hike I have taken many times. Stopping where I had before, in deep shade facing a narrow sunlit mountain meadow, I asked her to sit with me and wait. “For what?” she asked. “God.”, was my answer. “Ask, and God will come.”
So we waited in silence. It didn’t take long until a breath of air so slight it couldn’t penetrate our shade came across the meadow, bending new grasses and bobbing young wildflowers on their spindly stems. “What was that?”.
Truth is ....... damned if I know! But it will happen. It will always happen. With patience, and focus, and the desire to communicate, wonderful events occur. That is why I photograph. I want to communicate those events, your story, nature’s importance, or the importance of your life.
As an author, I have the same goals, although admittedly a bit more selfish. I want to tell you where I am, where my sometimes bent little mind goes, maybe where I want yours to go, all without you knowing. And so it is that I came to take this self portrait. I’m not so good looking as to post my own mug to the web. It was my intent (when taking the photo) to illustrate a yet to be published short story called ‘Abandoned’.
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