Whatever our creative endeavors, we all hit our personal walls. It's just an unavoidable feature of being human beings. Some of these...

The negative is an equivalent of composer score and print is the equivalent of the conductor’s performance... Ansel Adams Replace...

If there were no accidents there would be no creativity. Artists depend on them. Inventors, another kind of artist, depend on them. ...

There is an understandable but unnecessary emphasis on lens sharpness, that is sometimes associated with acquiring the latest and...

I love this photograph. However it is hardly a photograph as once defined by ancient tradition, and the aging priests of our religion. ...

Another spring. I don't take them for granted. Too much trouble in the world. In the midst of all the hardness and cold, spring...

These photographs were taken with a Nikon 50mm f1.8 lens mounted on a Sony A6000, handheld. Minor edits in Lightroom Classic. Perhaps a...

A crushed leaf It was almost gone, crushed into the bricks underfoot. High above mundane pursuits, it once observed the dark path below. ...

Flowing Light, shadow, line, form, texture, motion, time.  I probably missed something. I recall years ago learning how to give water...

Sometimes it’s dark. That doesn’t at all mean hopeless. Even the Psalmist felt heaviness at times. Actually, this image may be much more...

I’ve published three books on Amazon lately. They are catalogs of black and white and color images, nature, scenic, details, and street...

The Beatles were prophets: Considering current events, music naturally comes to mind. How did John and Paul know? Anyway. One of my silly...

The temperature did not get out of the thirties yesterday. The skies were a dismal gray. Hardly photography weather for most people. For...

“The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.”  C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters, 1946. Quoted from a letter...

Georgia does not offer the sharply chiseled granite cliffs, deep blue, haze free skies of the West. Our mountains are rounded green or...

A simple post. Here are a couple gems I found while digging in old photographs and negatives. The first is a photograph of my oldest...

In other of my posts I’ve told about going through old photographs and negatives, organizing them, and looking for a few gems among the...

Another family portrait from my “AA” days… “Ansel Adams” days that is: 4×5 view camera, Tri-X film, and Zone System. Need I say more?...

The Who’s Roger Daltrey called The Rolling Stones a “mediocre pub band.” The guy must just need some love, which I am certain his...

No photograph presents reality. It is an object to itself. At the very best it conveys an idea. Cropping, angle of view, and the...