MOODS AND EMOTIONS

GHOSTS TRAINS OF LAMY, 2010

Photography is all about light. That has been the rule since the beginning. Light is about mood, and that too, for me, has been the rule. I am affected by light in much of what I do. My vision as an artist is about form, mood, color, brightness and darkness, and the overall but unspoken emotions that a particular scene brings to my awareness. Or does my awareness bring the mood?

When I took this photograph, I was deeply connected to what I was seeing and feeling. I was drawn to the Lamy Station because it was close and handy to where I was staying. I was also drawn because of my love of trains, and by my habit of photographing older buildings and structures.

I brought my personal history along with me, and that coupled with what I was seeing allowed for me the opportunity to interpret the place, the lighting, the aesthetics, and the mood into compositions. It was not until the past few days that I was able to bring all those elements together in an image that I think conveys what I wish to say about that day and that place and about myself.

This process brings to me a sort of "full-circle" completion. Working with this image, I am drawn back in time and space Lamy, New Mexico on May 6, 2010. I then bring that connection into the present, and allow for some magic to occur.

I think this is what most artist do with their creations. I am sure that what I experience is completely different than what others see and feel, but I think that they do see, feel and react. If so I succeeded.