For the Excerpts series (2009-2011), I consciously made appealing landscape pictures. Then, like any good photographer, I cropped them to create the best, most dynamic image I could. But I am more interested in what has been cropped out than I am in what was left in. We expect to see the mountains, the sunsets, the falls; we can picture them in our minds. This series is about absence, the ‘plucking out’ of the prime elements of the original image