Documenting our Landscape

When I first began seriously making images I shot everything I could find in my viewfinder. A roll of PlusX lasted but minutes; I knew when I was finished because I had no more film. The simple truth was I had no vision, no means of seeing beyond the surface where everything looked interesting indiscriminately. Every once in a while I might find an image I really liked but they were few and far between. Those early years were important because I spent time looking, both in general and specifically through the viewfinder of my camera. I began to discriminate, to frame images more carefully, ignoring some potential images and concentrating on others. Still I was only looking in the broadest sense of the word.