| Photography Philosophy - 'It was like that when
I got here!'
...By which I simply mean to acknowledge my own infinitesimal role as
photographer: The places I like to photograph are artful works of Creation.
Every now and then, with patience or good fortune, all the elements of
season and weather and time and tide and lighting, all fall into majestic
harmony. Those glory moments are when I hope to be there, to document
and try to communicate some small essence of the drama or beauty of such
a defining instant for a scene or location. It’s an addictive pursuit
that I find deeply rewarding, and one that quickly becomes a way of life
to the keen photographer: always aware of the quality and mood of light,
always prospecting for visual treasures. Even on days when I come home
seemingly empty-handed, it usually isn't so, because the rewards of the
effort are often rich: being outdoors, communing with the natural world
and enjoying its endless magnificence; noticing creatures going about
their daily chores, contemplating the local geology, hearing the awesome
bass sound that only nature can create as a long wave flops over on some
lonely beach, experiencing the perfection in natural designs, simple sensory
pleasures like the smell of the ocean, moonlight reflecting off a night-dark
sea, the grace and freedom of a bird in flight; all this feels enriching
and a worthy enough end in itself. It instills a sense of scale and perspective,
and with that, an inevitable humility.
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