I have enjoyed fifty years of fascination and adventure with photography. There is so much to revel in. Lenses, film, chemistry, circles of confusion interacting with digital sensors. The nature of light as it bends around the earth and bounces from one surface to another. The edges of the visible spectrum and beyond. The effect of time on image capture. What more could you want?

There is one thing that keeps me eternally coming back to the camera, which has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with environment and subject: connection.

The unfettered connection that is established with the world through a viewfinder is, for me, medicinal. When I say unfettered, I mean that if you allow yourself to do so, you can, for a fleeting moment, see, and feel, the world around you with a certain kind of purity. You can forget judgement, climate change, war, greed, poverty, the whole sorry mess.