Documenting our Landscape

Photography, any visual art for that matter, but photography in particular is about learning to see. Everyone looks but not everyone sees. What is the difference? Looking is indiscriminate in the sense that looking takes in everything without attending to anything in particular. Seeing is the learned practice of attending, of paying close attention to not only what is present in its origins but, and this is most important, attending to what the photographic image will look like when finished. Seeing involves both the here and now and the ability to project to the finished product.