Why do I take photographs?  I have asked myself this question many times over the years and very often I could not come up with a good answer.  Discouragement would soon follow and the result would be that I would stop taking photographs.

     In the last couple of years I have been able to answer that question more often than not.  Taking photographs is a form of escapism through transformation.  It is an alternative way of experiencing the world.  Observed through the viewfinder the world becomes something else; no longer full of dullness and monotony, everything becomes full of potential.  Photography is a reason to leave the house, an excuse to wander aimlessly through the streets and alleys.  Then, if I'm lucky and in the proper head space, something catches my eye- a color, a shape, a texture- and through the camera it becomes an image.

     The result of this is that photography itself has become a form of meditation.  It requires a clear head and a light heart.  There is no room for a deliberate, judgemental attitude when taking my camera for a 'walk'; I refuse to even think that I'm going out to take pictures, instead I am simply taking my camera for a walk.  It is then that the potential in everything is revealed-the beautiful and the ugly all have potential.

     My images are the external representation of this internal process taken toward photography.  The hours spent aimlessly walking the pavement, time spent in quiet contemplation, the years spent studying the photos of the greats, and so on and so on, it has all been absorbed and transmuted into the images.   It is something that has unfolded over time and will continue to grow into the future.