My book shelf is littered with Taschen's city photography books, Robert Doisneau (my absolute hero of all time) collections - "street photography" stuff; photography of mutable things.
That's where my interest lies - photography of mutable things. Even for myself, I prefer to take photos of street musicians making a buck at the London Underground, accordian players on the Parisian metropolitain, the old man selling snacks on the side of Lyndhurst Terrace back home.
Scenic photography? I was never really taken.
Not until I saw Peter Lik's work at this gallery. So THIS is what absolute beauty looks like. I stood, unmoving, in front of the image of the jetty at dusk for the longest time ever - feeling the real implications of the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words".