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I grew up in Israel, at a time when it was mostly empty, before it became the bustling metropolis that it is today. I spent my early years roaming seemingly endless fields and orchards abandoned by former occupants who fled the area when it became a Jewish State. At that time I could find abundant solitude and fascination with the natural treasures around me. On a given walk I often encountered fauna and flora now extinct or almost so.

The wild vanished before my eyes as I grew up, and though I did not know it at the time I was to spend the rest of my life trying to find it again. My mandatory military service coincided with the Palestinian uprising, bringing me face to face with the ravages of war and its unspeakable toll.

When the places I ...more

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When vision is marketed to win / there’s nothing in victory to desire. ~Wendell Berry

I have never entered my photographs into a contest. If I had to offer a formal reason, it would be this: competition introduces motivations and temptations that in my mind are incompatible with creative self-expression. Informally, I really don’t care what some random judge(s) may think about my work, an

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	More Than a Rock: Essays on Art, Creativity, Photography, Nature, and Life 4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Landscape Photographer's Guide to Photoshop: A Visualization-Driven Workflow 4.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Another Day Not Wasted: Meditations in Photography, Art, and Wildness by Guy Tal (Goodreads Author), Colleen J. Miniuk (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Interior Landscape: The Landscape on Both Sides of the Camera: Reflections on Art, Creativity, Expression, and a Life in Photography 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“To create is not to simply capture or record; it is to invent and to infuse—knowingly, deliberately, and expertly—something of the artist’s own mind into the work so that the result is elevated not by its literal appearance alone, but by the significance inscribed, stamped, and sealed into it by its creator—a significance that would never exist without the artist’s subjective imagination and skill. This requires hard work and expert knowledge of one’s chosen medium, not only in the operation of tools or in producing objects of aesthetic appeal, but also in understanding the minds of viewers.”
― Guy Tal, More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition: Essays on Art, Creativity, Photography, Nature, and Life

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