I noted in an earlier blog post that my passion for capturing the iconic landscapes of the 'Gunks has abated. More accurately, I feel that I've mostly satisfied the appetite I once had to express this unique landscape by conventional photographic means.
I often remark how lucky I am to have had an opportunity to "discover" the area through imagery and was reminded of this when I came across a snippet of a Keats poem. Keats desired to distill the essence of the natural world poetically and he writes that in the ideal life he would ask for ten years:
" ...so I may do the deed
That my own soul has to itself decreed."
Thankfully, I've had those ten years.
Of course, I'll always enjoy and photographically express the 'Gunks exceptional landscapes, like this image I captured yesterday after the storm. How could I not?
But I expect I'll be capturing fewer iconic landscapes and, like my mentor Eliot Porter, continue to look more deeply for scenes and methods that will bring a new and different expression to my work.
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