Idea: Landscape

"Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment." ~Galen Rowell

"Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological." ~ Jim Hodges

Text:
Copps, David H. Views from the Road: a community guide for assesing rural historic landscapes. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1995. Print.

With this project the landscape of these historical sites is primarily what I am photographing. I like to look at these places that we know have a specific history and try to relate what I know happened there to what I'm seeing. In some places there are very distinct relationships between the what you can see now and what has transpired in the past, in others the relationship is a little more hazy. But I think those relationships are what give them such an interesting contrast.