Some things I have been reading lately that seem to reflect some of my photographic intentions.

Taken from page 108  "Robert Adams Tree Line" from an interview in 1980:

"I'll tell you a kind of view in which I am increasingly  disinterested - pictures centered on man-made ironies, pictures where the subject is a grotesque juxtaposition unintended by those responsible for it. There are plastic flamingos in everybody's yard, after all, and their presence does not tell us much anymore. We have to include them in pictures because they are everywhere, but they shouldn't be the chief subjects of pictures, at least unless you can redeem them  somehow. Fundamentally I think we need to rediscover a non-ironic world"

I have realised I want to describe what I see, what is there in front of me in a straight forward manner.

and Lewis Baltz writes (from "Lewis Baltz Texts" page 34' 'The New West'):

"What distinguishes Adams from most of his photographic contemporaries is the distance he takes from his subject, both literally and figuratively. This distance is essential to Adams project which is to present a record of man's attempt to live on, and occasionally with, the land, a theme reduced to kitschy sentimentality by his immediate predecessors ... It is this forthright and (seemingly) disengaged quality of Adams' vision that permits him to direct our attention to the most squalid and meretricious instances of commercial development without reveling in their Pop vulgarity..."

I know whatever I end up with, will be different, it does provide a sense of direction ....