THE INTIMATE LANDSCAPE
FINDING MY PERSONAL VISION
For as long as I have been a photographer, I have preferred making images of details. I started out using macro techniques to isolate small subjects such as dewdrops or flower petals. This type of closeup image, although it didn’t describe the overall scene, seemed to convey the energy of my experience most effectively. The composition showing only part of the subject revealed that elusive “essence” more than a simply descriptive photograph of the whole subject.
When I started using a 4x5 camera in 1982, I continued to photograph nature details, but more often photographed the landscape in the middle-distance range where there was usually no sky and often not much suggestion of foreground. I call ...
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