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.

It is the why and what we seek to find as photographers. As photographers we are visual poets. We write poems with our vision. Our subjects the actors we use to tell our story.

“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.

In my mind, truth should be the goal of every image and the understanding of that truth, the prize.

A Skink Pinhole Pancake is a great way to create beautiful soft and dreamlike imagery with either a digital or a film camera.

To be inspired is not to copy what others create, but to use what we learn from their works to stimulate our own innovation.

While it is a great thing to have access to the abundance of imagery that exists on the internet, the actual experience of any piece of art is minimal at best.