well photography really has become my
primary language it’s hard for me to
speak and write English was never my
forte so it became my new means of
communication and so I am just sharing
what it is that I see
I don’t consider myself really a
creative person I am recording what’s
there and that’s beauty of it you know
mother nature is the creator and the
artist I’m just seeing it going oh wow
look at that okay and then I’m just
grabbing that little snippet that
already exists I’m recording it and then
I’m sharing it
I was in Syracuse University I was an
engineering student and I realized have
to get out of that in a hurry and I took
other courses at being a liberal arts
school and I really fell in love in our
history course I took and it’s
specifically Impressionists and then one
day I took a well I I took a photography
course and it was the combination of the
chemical at that time and the mechanical
which is the you know cameras and the
instant art is in art history and as
just from that moment on I knew that’s
what I wanted to do I loved the film and
I used specifically one film almost
exclusively and I knew exactly how the
image was going to look when I took the
picture by knowing that film however you
know I I saw the future coming and the
way before it was here I was trying to
learn everything about digital when the
cameras came out digitally that were
equal to the cameras that we shot with
with film I switched from one to the
other seamlessly you know Ansel Adams
the true master of technique you know I
know that Ansel would be if he was alive
he’d be totally into digital I mean it’s
it gives you actually more options when
you’re photographing trees are are
really a lifelong project for me you
know from the day I picked up the camera
I was drawn towards trees
I don’t know that–just I know that they
were here before I got here and I know
they’re gonna be here a lot longer after
I’m gone
and I just look at them and you know
they’re just and they have so much
wisdom and they’re so peaceful and
there’s they represent so many things to
me that I don’t never tire of them I
would like to eventually someday maybe
produce a book on trees I was living in
upstate New York in the Catskill
Mountains and I was doing mostly
carpentry work roofing and I wasn’t
shooting very much in fact I’d sold most
of my cameras and I was 27 years old and
I shot a fall maple tree in the fog and
when the little yellow box came back
from Kodak I opened it up and there was
a picture in there of these two maple
trees and the picture said to me go to
New York be a photographer this is your
calling and so that picture is still
hanging in my office and it’s still one
of my favorite pictures what is it good
photographer need what qualities does he
need to become a good photographer I
guess patience for me is probably number
one the ability to step back and look
and take yourself out of a situation
maybe to see what’s around you you know
it the whole process is a base for me
I’m pretty much a mindless process you
know once you get in the zone you’re
just reacting and I think that could be
true of war photographer although
they’ve got to be really aware of their
surroundings which I do too if I’m
shooting bears or wild animals but I
think you’re just you know you’re
reacting that and the fact that you have
to be able to sacrifice really cocktail
hour breakfast you have to be there when
the lights
what inspires me as a photographer it’s
just you know the beautiful natural
world I just you know when I’m out on
location and I’m there at sunrise and
I’m alone and it’s just like the most
beautiful symphony going on in front of
me you know I’m capturing it but I’m
saying yes and thank you at the same
time
you
primary language it’s hard for me to
speak and write English was never my
forte so it became my new means of
communication and so I am just sharing
what it is that I see
I don’t consider myself really a
creative person I am recording what’s
there and that’s beauty of it you know
mother nature is the creator and the
artist I’m just seeing it going oh wow
look at that okay and then I’m just
grabbing that little snippet that
already exists I’m recording it and then
I’m sharing it
I was in Syracuse University I was an
engineering student and I realized have
to get out of that in a hurry and I took
other courses at being a liberal arts
school and I really fell in love in our
history course I took and it’s
specifically Impressionists and then one
day I took a well I I took a photography
course and it was the combination of the
chemical at that time and the mechanical
which is the you know cameras and the
instant art is in art history and as
just from that moment on I knew that’s
what I wanted to do I loved the film and
I used specifically one film almost
exclusively and I knew exactly how the
image was going to look when I took the
picture by knowing that film however you
know I I saw the future coming and the
way before it was here I was trying to
learn everything about digital when the
cameras came out digitally that were
equal to the cameras that we shot with
with film I switched from one to the
other seamlessly you know Ansel Adams
the true master of technique you know I
know that Ansel would be if he was alive
he’d be totally into digital I mean it’s
it gives you actually more options when
you’re photographing trees are are
really a lifelong project for me you
know from the day I picked up the camera
I was drawn towards trees
I don’t know that–just I know that they
were here before I got here and I know
they’re gonna be here a lot longer after
I’m gone
and I just look at them and you know
they’re just and they have so much
wisdom and they’re so peaceful and
there’s they represent so many things to
me that I don’t never tire of them I
would like to eventually someday maybe
produce a book on trees I was living in
upstate New York in the Catskill
Mountains and I was doing mostly
carpentry work roofing and I wasn’t
shooting very much in fact I’d sold most
of my cameras and I was 27 years old and
I shot a fall maple tree in the fog and
when the little yellow box came back
from Kodak I opened it up and there was
a picture in there of these two maple
trees and the picture said to me go to
New York be a photographer this is your
calling and so that picture is still
hanging in my office and it’s still one
of my favorite pictures what is it good
photographer need what qualities does he
need to become a good photographer I
guess patience for me is probably number
one the ability to step back and look
and take yourself out of a situation
maybe to see what’s around you you know
it the whole process is a base for me
I’m pretty much a mindless process you
know once you get in the zone you’re
just reacting and I think that could be
true of war photographer although
they’ve got to be really aware of their
surroundings which I do too if I’m
shooting bears or wild animals but I
think you’re just you know you’re
reacting that and the fact that you have
to be able to sacrifice really cocktail
hour breakfast you have to be there when
the lights
what inspires me as a photographer it’s
just you know the beautiful natural
world I just you know when I’m out on
location and I’m there at sunrise and
I’m alone and it’s just like the most
beautiful symphony going on in front of
me you know I’m capturing it but I’m
saying yes and thank you at the same
time
you
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