Hmmm... I was curious when I saw the title, so I read it. Strangely enough (or maybe not so strangely), I've always found it difficult to find, define or assign any kind of higher or deeper meaning to my love of landscape photography. I read what others have to say about it, how they've discovered the deeper implications of this or that, how they've even discovered who they really are through some redeeming or clarifying value of the photographic activity...
All this has, I must say, always sounded to me like a lot of mumbo-jumbo. I mean, I'm happy for the guys who finally "found the way", as Lao-Tseu put it, but honestly, I'm not sure I can follow them there. Maybe I'm too much of a pragmatist, but when I look at the photos they say are emblematic of the "before" and "after" phases, I can't really tell the difference, except that the "after" ones often are blurry and technically questionable... If
that is typical of a landscape photographer who's finally found the higher meaning of it all, then I have indeed found it quite some time ago, as I can remember producing such "unfortunate" pictures myself; I just chose not to show them!
In other words, as much as I would love to move into that higher and more meaningful phase of my photographic life, I am afraid my path has not been enlightened yet —and somehow, I doubt it ever will.