Documenting our Landscape

Learning to see in a photographic sense means that one has acquired skills that lead directly to what Cartier-Bresson called the decisive moment. One must learn to gaze patiently at the whole of what one chooses to photograph. One must also learn to reduce one’s gaze into a frame, a ratio of width to height, that results in a pleasing composition. One must also further reduce ones frame into a precise moment of action, that moment within the continuum of moments to capture an image on film or, to be more precise, to a digital file. Finally, one must learn to seamlessly apply one’s gaze to the equipment one chooses to use but this is the least important part of the process.