I photograph my experience of the moment and strive to not only capture the natural beauty before my eyes, but
to place my feelings on film, my emotions on emulsion.
However, seeing beauty and photographing beauty are completely different things. Nature is chaotic. However, our minds have a tendency to edit this chaos from our memories and experience. Unfortunately, our cameras capture everything!
On a walk through the prairie or savanna, it is easy to create many perfect pictures in your mind of subjects and scenes. This is because our brains do not record anything that we do not put our attention on.
Now imagine, through the brush, you are excited and startled to discover a brilliant red tree in the near distance. Photographing the red tree from where you stand would result in a picture of brush, through which you can see patches of red.
However, if at that moment, the red tree became your world, your experience would completely ignore the bramble. The picture in your mind would show a perfect red tree without visual impediments.
Which image is the truth? Is it the picture in your head or is it the picture on the film?
When I am confronted with such a situation, I seek out a way to put on film the perfect world that is in my head.
Unlike a painter, who fabricates perfect moments from the imagination, I use light and composition to record images of actual perfect moments in time.
