Quotes from: Glacial Proportions, James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, By: Claire Sykes, Photographer's Forum Summer 2009

Balog: "I believe photography is one of the most powerful mediums of communication ever invented. Too much of the time, it's squandered on trivialities. I'd like to see us aspire to the angels of our higher nature. If we can pull our minds and hearts together to use the medium to its full power, we can make an important impact on the world."

- WOW! Couldn't have said it better. When I read this it makes me want to be the (not to be cliche) best I can be. This is what I want my photography to do "make an important impact on the world" as little or big as it may be.

Balog: "This is what it looks like. See how beautiful this is. This is worth your time and attention - because we might lose it. I feel their life, their presence, but I also feel the past and the future in these landscapes when I look at them. I see where we are right now in terms of what we have less of, and I project myself forward, in time and see a place without these 'creatures' before me."

- Here Balog is talking about glaciers, however this is quite similar to how I feel when I look at old abandoned houses.