Photography is Zen like. It lives in the fleeting moments of our day-to-day existence. Yet, there is also a transcendent quality to the act of making a picture. There is somehow an expectation I hold toward the process that helps to make sense of the world -- to find beauty in it. There is also something extraordinary about the power of the camera to freeze, frame and fix time as it does. At 1/8,000th of a second, the world stops on a hot summer day.
What Bruno Chalifour says of photography is true:
"Sensitivity, knowledge, experience, and imagination are the tools that we were given to work within that frame and make most of the world within it, make sense, establish relationships, move and be moved, express ourselves."
For me, creating pictures is what people do with their time while waiting to go to heaven. At least, that's one way to imagine heaven. To exist for all time through the impressions of the world we have created for ourselves.