STATEMENT

 To me the landscape is a reality check. It is a total escape from social media, politics and noise of the world. Photographing the landscape gives me pleasure because I can touch it, walk on it, smell it. To be under the sky, on top of the earth and away from the city is meditative. Blood pressure goes down and contentment goes up.  

 I am awed by the beauty of the landscape, its reflected light, and the shadows it creates. I am most drawn to areas not often recognized as grand or magnificent. It is the peripheral parts of the land that I find visually interesting. As a rule, I am always interested in where the land meets the sky. The wonderful horizontal line, which in my area of the world is deliciously flat. It is a straight line that seems to go on forever. I don’t think one can make a true landscape without showing the horizon. 

The landscape in southwestern part of the United States is particularly impressive. Simultaneously the mixture of plains, mountains, and canyons can easily overwhelm. The sheer vastness is a reminder of how small we are. Sometimes the sense of a place is space.