“”The camera is the instrument I use to grasp the great beauty of our earth and my love and respect for its raw magnificence, either natural or made by the hand of man. My goal in the art of photography has always been to evoke emotion in the viewer and provide everlasting portraits of landscapes, structures and its inhabitants. I take big and perhaps complicated scenes and try to make them less complicated and more intimate. My purpose is to photograph a subject in a way to remove clutter and give the viewer a simple yet dramatic view of what I saw and felt when I was there. I remain committed to the diligent and never-tiring pursuit to capture exceptional imagery.” – JOHN MCMANUS