Today’s mood: contemplative.

Sometimes life is just about looking back to review what has happened; that’s where we are this week.

When I first started using a camera, my interest was driven by landscape and my desire to reproduce pretty images I had seen. Since then I’ve changed, attempting to stay as original as possible. But I still love geography and images of beautiful scenery, so I make them from time to time.

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do young people discover that many aspects of life are uncertain, mysterious, and even unknowable. If you have a chance to play in nature, if you are sprayed by a beetle, if the color of a butterfly's wing comes off on your fingers, if you watch a caterpillar spin its cocoon — you come away with a sense of mystery and uncertainty. The more you watch, the more mysterious the natural world becomes, and the more you realize how little you know.