August 06, 2025

Signing with the Photo Agency was my most brilliant move to date
in that it forces me to relive all the old photographs. My life with the craft began in 1997, or 8, or 9.

It began with me telling my congregation in Batesville, Mississippi, "Don't send me to the Holy Land" (Which is something congregations sometimes did to their preachers)--"Send me to Yellowstone!" Which is what they did when we left Batesville for Greensboro, NC.

The trip to Yellowstone WAS a trip to the Holy Land. And opened the way to all of the other Holy Lands in the form of the National Parks, throughout my life with a camera.

Thank you Batesville!

The Natural World is the Holiest of Lands, and all we need to be healed and whole, saved and well. Just walk through nature, with or without a camera! It will restore us to ourselves, and to one another, and to all that is. Just sit for a while in nature. It will reintroduce us to ourselves. And immersing ourselves in our photographs will bring us to life again and again--what reincarnation is actually about. And what life after birth comes down to. Being with nature is all the church anyone ever needs. Which is what Jesus would say, and did say, with the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, and "the stone the builders reject."

We all are always surrounded by just what we need to wake up to who we are and what we are about, and that is all the realization, enlightenment, anyone ever needs to be who we are, and that is all anyone is ever asked to be. No?