Like most, even I have been loved, hated, amused, scared,
haunted, kissed, educated… I have been touched by the countless
others who gave inspiration to all I do in life. For this I would like to
thank many, but most of all:


MY MOTHER for being simply the best - my personal hero, for her
unconditional love and charming optimism


Jaro STAS an old friend, for in the drowning flux of life's circumstance
putting up a will to forge a brotherhood and for his ludic engagement
of eloquence in a dialect of language


MARKÉTA for, with such elegance, showing me the beauty of
an open mind


MY TEACHERS MARJA & KEITH for giving me a profound appreciation
of life, its paradoxical complex simplicity and for encouraging the
development of my rudimentary global perspective


Scott RUDD for the hundreds of hours of conversation on photography
and life's other important issues and for making me passionately fall in
love with grain