I continually return to this landscape as a physical tool for intimate self-contemplation and discovery.
Holding the camera to my face and seeing requires fierce and single-minded concentration. As I develop and refine my visual literacy, I see that my emotional literacy develops in tandem. Like waves in the ocean, feelings come in, rise to a peak, and then pass.
I watch this scene before me, a tableau in the wild, with curiosity. There is nothing for me to do other than to observe how photography can represent the direct human relationship to nature.