I may not have been able to make photography my life’s work and profession, but it has been my lifelong passion,  more so now than ever since I have been taking pictures digitally since 2008. Before they it was all film for decades, the old-fashioned way.

I believe I am a kindred spirit with many of the street, Nature and documentary photographers I have studied and admired for years. I have felt this way about a number of photographers over the years.

Although I concentrate on Nature, I am interested in many other types of photography. All the different schools and branches of photography are not that different, in my view, at the root of it all in terms of how I go about making pictures of a wide variety of subjects, and how I increasingly look for the abstract designs, fractals and patterns in both Nature and man-made objects. Also, I carefully note signs, abandoned or incongruously placed objects, and the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated elements in a photo composition.

This illustrates, in part, the way in which I “see” the world, and by this I mean using the camera as an extension of the eye and all its visual powers combined with intuition, deep feeling and emotion, and reverence for Nature.   Truly living for me involves photographing the physical world near and all around me, and of never tiring of this pursuit and avocation.   Each picture I take is an event that has great significance for it becomes, in my captured image, something as nearly permanent as anything I can know or create.   And as Cartier-Bresson said, I discover more about myself, and re-affirm my values and core feelings as I perpetually discover the world around me through photography.   In one way or another this has been going on all my life, at least since my early 20s.

I have been producing a series of photo books called “Photographic Visions,” in which I select seemingly random groups of 30 or more photographs to permanently endure in book form rather than be stored digitally in the Cloud or on my phone. Looking through a book of my pictures gives me much more of a sense of happiness and accomplishment than scrolling through them on my phone. I guess I’m still old-fashioned in that way, and with the Internet, self-publishing is possible for anyone.

Here is a set of pictures they will go into my next book. For now I don’t sell or market these books, but rather produce them for myself and to give away to friends and family. That suffices for now.

Photographic Visions

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