wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant energy. I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too." I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them. As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit. Light used in its own right, as in light pictures, gives to photography the wonderful plasticity that paint gives to painting without loss of the unmatched reality of straight photography. What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving. Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. Notes References Further reading Bullock, Wynn (1976). The Photograph as Symbol. Palo Alto: Artichoke Press. Zucker, Steven W.; Chasanoff, Allan; & Chuang, Joshua (Ed.) 2008. First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery. Sander, Gloria Williams (2006). The Collectible Moment – Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Yale University Press. Jensen, Brooks (2004). Rare and Unknown Bullock. Seattle: LensWork, October/November 2004. Weber, Al (2002). ‘'Tribute to Wynn Bullock: The Century Birthday Celebration. Photo Techniques, September/October, 2002. Sinsheimer, Karen (2002). Remembering Wynn Bullock. Photovision Art and Technique, May/June 2002. Gross, Phillipe L.; & Shapiro, S. I. (2001); The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. .Wynn Bullock: Listening with the Eyes, Seeing with the Heart'' essay by James Rhem, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2002. External links Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona American Photography Archives Group: Wynn Bullock bio The Nearby Café, A. D. Coleman Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Illinois Weston Gallery, Carmel California Biography at Stephen Daiter Gallery Lumiere Gallery Exhibit of Bullock Works "Altering Perceptions; Capturing beauty and terror, renewal