Here are a few of the most critical issues we face. These and many others, are the subjects of concerned image makers.

By the time people saw the truth, it was way too late.

What? and why?… to make a photograph.

Photography is a relatively new art form. It has only been around for a bit over a century and a half. In the scheme of almost every other form of the arts, that is a very small amount of time. In many ways, photography owes itself to all the arts that came before it.

Once you begin to realize the miracle we are in, you might agree that everything is sacred.

You have a story that you can tell. It is a story waiting for you to express in your own voice and in your own way. It takes time and practice and the right frame of mind. But that is a goal that can lead to seeing and ultimately to understanding.

“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” Edward Steichen… read more

Somewhere along the line, the world seems to have succumbed to the need for exaggeration in everything we do. ………Photography opens the door for seeing the world as it really exists. It allows us to realize the good as well as the bad.

What is the other half of the photographic experience?

For some reason there seems to be an acceptance that every image focused on the maker ever created in the history of artistic image-making must now be thrown into this single and greatly demeaning heading.