This article is a repost from 2013.   The photographic image captures a segment of what is in front of the camera, but the viewer senses…

“The image is what matters. How it gets to be what it is, might be called photography…..

The image is a way to speak. One of the more powerful uses of creativity is to use it as a way to tell. It is a language not too different from the written word. Photography is a creative process that can elevate the mind.

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned…The act of seeing is an act of awareness.

Hope can simply be that you gain a new perspective on things by looking at the world through an open mind. My job as a photographer is to see the world through a camera. The reward, is what…

Art is our mirror. It is a picture of who we are. Art is a road-map that we can use to see our progress as human beings.

In the area of photography, it is a term used to describe the viewer’s preferences and perhaps the maker’s ego. I find it is often used to describe a camera image that someone seems to simply like. There is a huge difference between…and åwesome.

Abstraction is meant to provoke the viewer. It is meant to spark the imagination, it begs for an answer, it compels contemplation.

Artists are generally only understood by other artists. Most people don’t get art at all – at least not enough to change their ways. Life is the same old story it has always been. Until the rest of the world sees the … the world will not change.