When The Object That Is Produced...the Photographic

In 1979, I Received A Phone Call From Ansel Adams Asking Me If I Would Be Willing To Consider Coming To Work For Him. I Was Teaching Photography In Southern California At That Point.

And Friends Of Mine That Had Photography Class In High School Would Develop The Film And Make Prints And I'd Take Them Back To The Track And Give 'em Away Or Try And Sell Them. Much To My Parents' Dismay, I Majored In Photography In College.

I Find The Surface Of A Photograph A Thing Of Beauty In And Of Itself, And It Is This Surface That Makes A Photograph Unique Relative To Other Two-dimensional Media.

You Can Also See Sometimes That The Best Pictures Are The Ones Where You Didn't Try So Hard, Where You Were Just Enjoying The Process - And You Didn't Even Know Why You Were Making The Picture. It Felt Right. If Someone Asked, 'why Are You Making This Picture?' You Probably Couldn't Describe It Very Well - And That's Why It Needs To Be A Photograph.

I Make Photographs And Still Make Photographs Of The Natural Environment. It's A Love Because That Was Part Of My Life Before I Was Involved In Photography.