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. ...

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

I went for a walk. Another walk. But a walk. With the rain coming, this will probably be the last of the color until next year. The...

I have a lot of creative energy, just not a lot of time. So I devote time to some things while neglecting others. So it is with this...

These are just lichens on a stump. Rather, they were just lichens on a stump. Where’d the color come from? When we see the dull, natural,...

Art is a strange land, filled with odd characters and personalities, gregarious party animals, solitary monks, the generous and stingy,...

When the pandemic hit and after the first shutdown in March last year, I had to get out of the house. The community center where I...

Mmm. Mooshie is a strange, funny word. I used it incorrectly for a long time, substituting the word mooshie for mushy, kind of as a play...

How to start. Stream of consciousness. Leads to a stream I have hiked many times. Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs,...

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. A. P. Herbert … Is in the Details In my opinion the original...

I spent a parallel career in I.T. and one of the skills you must learn to be successful in that line of work is how to question your own...

Oh, you can’t get out backwards. You’ve got to go forwards to go back, better press on. Willy Wonka I’ve been posting some of my recent...

“This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.” – Edward Weston No false humility here. I’m a...

Bear with me here, and don’t be judgemental. I understand people go through all kinds of circumstances, both good and bad throughout...

458-4599 was originally captured on 35mm color negative film. Again, travel back in history after the invention of photography to a time...

Bloody Mama was originally recorded on 35mm color negative film. Let’s start in a typical way of discussing photography. The history of...

When I started photographing, it was all about friends and fun. My gear was a Kodak Instamatic 126. Photography was all about friends and...