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In almost every one of my photographs I have left nature
completely undisturbed. As a rule I don't mess with nature. I
don't pull weeds, move rocks, break off branches, pick flowers,
or even pick autumn leaves off the tree. Some people don't
realize how many others walk on the same trails, or through the
same fields, that they do. They believe that since there are so
many flowers, nature will never miss one handful. Since I have
moved to Thailand, every time I return to Utah I am even more
painfully aware of just how many people hike everyday throughout
the Wasatch Front, and on every other footpath throughout the
entire state. The only reason there are any flowers there for me
photograph, or to even see, is because all those hikers who came
before me were thoughtful and considerate. The above image is
the exception, the rare moment in which I manipulated nature's
composition. And I did so only to the extent that I picked up
two aspen leaves that had fallen on the ground and placed them
on this fallen tree trunk. |
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