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Natural lighting, real spaces, true faces and expressions, serendipitous situations — I take delight in capturing that which already is, rather than in attempting to create a wondrous artifice. Creation is blooming already so fully, all around us. Thus, to photograph is, to me, to conspire with the camera, to provoke a blissful encounter between Creation and its witness.

I began photographing as a child, without any instruction, on a simple point-and-shoot 110 camera. Then, in my teens, I was gifted a Pentax reflex — still using film — and my photographic adventure took off, trying out all the knob positions to find out what they did. Growing up with a stoic disposition, I was never too eager to photograph in order to capture memories, but I did bring the camera when going mountain climbing, attempting to steal away some of the mountain's and the skies’ beauty.

I’ve learend to photograph by just doing it and by viewing and learning to appreciate, over the years, the works of great artists from around the world. Vincent van Gogh is one of my favorites. There’s a quote from him that I've carried with me: Painters understand nature, and love her, and teach us to see her. I’d say, Photographers understand nature, and love her, and teach us to see her.

Seeing and discovering the world through a frame: what grace, what mystery!

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