American Landscape By William Neill

Photographing wild landscapes, depicting an image pristine beauty, absent the intrusions man, is a dangerous proposition bordering on creating a false mythology. Yet wild places do still exist. What little is left will be lost if we don't develop a new and enlightened stewardship our earth where Nature and Man are not considered separately. Barry Lopez writes, "Wild landscapes are necessary to our being. We require them as we require air and water. But we need, at the same time, to create a landscape in which wilderness makes deep and eminent sense as part the whole, a landscape in which wilderness is not an orphan." Perhaps the only way the world will change is for people to go through some kind a pround aesthetic experience that makes us aware that we are personally accountable for our actions and how we affect the environment.
I can only hope that my photographs convey an enduring sense wonder, a deep appreciation the magic, beauty, and mystery the natural world."