I photograph a wide variety of subjects. I do a lot of different types of photography. However, there are still quite a few things that I don’t do.

My photography generally centers around things that I am passionate about it. So if if it doesn’t move me or inspire me, or I don’t find it interesting then I tend not to photograph it. This shapes and informs the type off work I do and the type of art I create.

One thing I don’t photograph very often is man made structures.

The built world while essential to the way we live our lives I don’t find it particularly interesting. I tend to think of the man made as mostly tools. They help us do the things that make life important.

I love my cameras and I am thankful they have been made, but aside from the fact that they let me create art I don’t have a particular affection for them. This is how I feel about many man made structures one might see.

Unless what is man made is in some way in dialog with what is natural. A wide open landscape with a massive man made feet of engineering spanning the whole space.The structure doesn’t ruin the natural feel but is in conversation with the natural. Allowing human activity to connect with the space around it.

It also helps if there is a measure of beauty to the man made. Stones arranged and constructed in a combination of forms and function. The texture of the stone. The way the light hits it. The play of light and shadow around the archways. A giant stone structure surrounded by trees.

I think one big difference for me between the man made and the natural is that the man made can be deconstructed and rebuilt identically over and over if desired. But You cut down one tree and plant another and those trees will never be exactly the same.

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