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They fly through my sky.
I see them as featherless birds flying past me, parting the clouds more quickly than my camera can stop them.
I find humans so fascinating. I took my cue from Desmond Morris many years ago when I read his book "The Naked Ape." He examined human behavior as a zoologist studying a primate. He tried to strip away the bias with which we humans see ourselves. In some ways, the camera accomplishes the same end. We each have an image in our mind of what we are as individuals. Yet that image often clashes with frames of ourselves captured by the camera.
My personal tastes run to the candid. I don't like to "set up" a shot. Instead, I prefer to stalk my subject and seek to become invisible in hopes that the subject will reveal some secret to the lens.
--J.R.
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