Light on the Landscape

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WRITE ABOUT YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY TO BECOME A MORE POWERFUL STORYTELLER

When I first studied photography in college, the last thing I wanted to do was talk about my images. I just wanted to be outside exploring nature with my camera. My professor persisted, and so in order to pass the class, I had to define and defend my images in class. He wasn’t into landscape photography at all, and especially didn’t like Ansel Adams’s work. I was defensive about my favorite subject matter, so we clashed. Good thing I was stubborn back then. Oh yes, I still am.

So here I sit four decades later, doing what I so resisted in school: talking about my photography, or in this case, writing about it. Along the way, starting in college, I poured through photo books, ...