A Renewed Focus on Film Images A season of travel and hiking, along with some new equipment, brings a new emphasis on my old passion: Film. Facebook Twitter LinkedInMore I have been trying to put together a film kit for...
When entering The Catacombs, carry the right kind of wine.The Vault (or catacombs) is my euphemism for my older work. I keep my negatives in protective sheets in 3-ring binders labeled by the type of film, and the number of...
I have been at this for a long time. While not wishing to bathe in nostalgia, I wanted to go back and find earlier versions of recent photographs, and see how I have changed as a photographer, and how the...
A long time ago, I ran across a book called “The Art of Seeing.” Not to be confused with the book by Aldous Huxley, this described a way of seeing the world in such a way as to easily paint...
I go to great lengths to not use the word “shoot”, or its permutations in relation to photography. Instead of “shot”, I will use “took” or “image” depending on the context. I don’t “shoot” pictures. Some of you may have...
Trees almost always show up in my landscapes, but they are rarely the focus. I have even taken pictures where the space between them was the focus, like in the picture below. Off Walker Farm Road, September 2011There have been...
I am, above all, a lover of all things warm (with the exception of ice cream and martinis). As such, getting out in the winter to take pictures is a labor of loathing. I’m not the kind of photographer who...
The title for this piece comes in part from an album title from 1983 by a band called Minutemen. The album was called “Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat.” Minutemen were a punk rock band, so the music...
Introverts have no trouble social distancing. It’s the reverse of that which tends to make us uneasy. Still, while we shelter at home, cringing every Sunday when our iPhones notify us of the amount of our lives we have wasted...
When I started my photography blog in 2012, I had intended it to be in the vein of Ansel Adams’ many books of technical explanations of how he made his photographs. I intended to discuss the ways of the camera...