When I first got into photography I really had no idea who Ansel Adams was and still don’t know a lot of the great photographers. I read Popular Photography every month and soon I became someone who thought the only things that made a good phot were the camera and film you used. One day when I had read every current issue of Pop Photo I picked up another magazine, I think it was a Landscape or Black and White magazine, it had this photographer named John sexton in it. I looked at his stuff and was blown away by it, there was other work in the magazine, it was about photographers not cameras and I began to understand that people take pictures not cameras.

I really kick my self for not remembering this but someone said that if you want to really do something well be it black and white photography or landscapes or any art, you have to look at everything they’ve done, study it memorize it and duplicate it. Then, when you’ve mastered it, take it one step further. Most people would choose a famous photographer that’s a house hold name to master but I went with John Sexton and the Black and white landscape (well know in his own right), I really like how it’s turned out.