An integral part of these journeys has been photography. My own is a very instinctive and documentary style of place and feeling – a personal journalism. Carrying a camera changes how one looks and sees over time. It becomes so familiar that it disappears and becomes part of seeing. The photograph is a significant form of time travel. It is how we can know the highs and lows of our own culture going back into the early to mid 19^th century – the land, the wars, the cities, the technology, the people – the cycles of our own civilization. It is a means to send these messages forward in time and outward in space attempting to add to some collective consciousness beyond the individual and the moment. In a way, the desert has played a similar role. Aridity has preserved the evidence of time. Much of our sense of culture and civilization began with ruins to be witnessed there. The ability to see distantly may well have played a role in those civilizations forming in the first place.