Life is much better for me when I can pick and choose what to focus on, and a camera lens is invaluable for that. When it comes to how I approach photography I take a page -literally- from Mountain Man Osborne Russell.

“if you are in search of the travels of a Classical and Scientific [Photographer], please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a [Photographer] has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a [Photographer’s] rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this, and forgive the [Photographer]’s foibles and imperfections, considering as you pass along that he has been chiefly educated in Nature's School under that rigid tutor experience, and you will also bear in mind the [Photographer] does not hold himself responsible for the correctness of statements made otherwise than from observation.

THE AUTHOR. Osborne Russell, Journal of a Trapper

I hope you find the same beauty and distraction in these photos as I did when I was out there making them.