Whilst in Paris, at Paris-Photo, I came across the works of photographer Michael Kenna for the first time. The silent beauty of the photographs attracted me almost immediately, and I think as a photographer more than often we come across works, which resonate with us, with which we seem to immediately form a bond, and leave's a lingering presence in our minds. I would like to include an extract from an interview I read of his this morning, and with a photograph to share his style, serenity and the beauty which drew me to them in the first place There is a tendency in human beings to pre-visualize and try to predict and control what is happening. But, I think we are bound by our own limited sense of aesthetics and intellect – and our abilities, which perhaps are not so great. I think there are so many possibilities out there. The potential is so great that if you allow yourself to be, in a sense, controlled by the external when you are photographing, or you combine your internal with the external and allow it to form a relationship the results are often far, far stronger. At least they are for me.