Photography (and love) have taught me that beauty is everywhere, if you open your eyes to it. Photography and love work well together. I am drawn to photographing the last leaves, they have great character and grace, they inspire me to age well and thoughtfully and with dignity and humor. Like them, I will turn and fall. In the meantime, my life will not be about living to the expectations, warnings and greed of other people. I want to go the way they go.