The camera comes
because
I'm going anyway.
I live at the foot of Rattlesnake Mountain, in a small town at the top of the Snoqualmie Valley. On a good day I'm up with first light through the Douglas firs, coffee by the fire on the balcony, and by afternoon I'm climbing the same ridge until the trees break.
Sometimes I travel to industrial towns, port cities, the kind of nowhere that doesn't make anyone's must-visit list. The camera comes because I'm going anyway. The best photographs I've brought home started as a two-hour detour.
Where the camera has come along.
Sometimes my path crosses yours. Same town, same trail, same morning.
Write when it does. I'll either write back or I won't. Both are honest answers.
I take a small number of commissions each year: documentary work with people whose work is outdoors. Write with the place, the dates, and what the pictures are for.