Like many of you, I have been trained in the classroom, the goal of which was to make me think, but I consider my personal photographic training in the mountainous and desert regions of the Western United States the most valuable because it has taught me to see. Like many of you, I have an insatiable desire to travel and explore new places and concepts. Light affects the world and individuals in so many ways: it illuminates everything that is beautiful, from a human face to a rugged mountain range. Please enjoy everything that is natural even more than you do, and I hope to see you sometime in the canyons of the U.S. or the faraway places of the world.