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Posted on April 10, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

The Trip Was Great, Welcome Home! Truth be told, I’ve been home for about a week. Firstly it took a little doing to get back into the routine. Then to reorganize the kitchen to how I like it. That’s not a complaint, it’s just different folks work differently, and don’t know where things belong. Then I had to sort through the fridge and completely reorganize the freezer, because I had that big party just before I left. And anyone who has done that knows that the leftovers end up in all sorts of places. This first post

Let The Trip Begin!

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

Let the trip Begin The day is arriving. I have a pretty big group coming this weekend. Then next Saturday I have a party of about 140 people. Sunday brings my vacation, road trip and creative residency. I’m going to the northeast corner of Tennessee, to visit a friend who lives in Piney Flats Tn. And another coming up from Knoxville to visit as well. They’re both photographers and there are a lot of places to hike and shoot. But that’s not the residency. I have a van that I converted to a camper that I use for

Creating my own creative residency.

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

Creating My Own Creative Residency Today’s gallery is a collection of film images. I went through a phase where I, not only wanted to have a darkroom again, but build one. But I have to say that the romance of it that I created in my mind wasn’t what I remembered. It became so cost prohibitive to process images in the darkroom to say nothing about he hours it took to process just one image. But, I do enjoy the process of developing and scanning the film. Then working on the in the digital realm. These are a few

The Lifelong Learner

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

The Lifelong Learner While I didn’t complete much last year, I did join a couple of online classes. I’ve been a longtime member of PS Artistry by Sebastian Michaels. It was his classes that made me start thinking about looking at my photography as art. Photoshop opened a world to me that I could only dream about in the darkroom. I was always inspired by people like Jerry Uelsmann and Man Ray, then as the digital realm grew, Maggie Taylor and Brooke Shaden, just to name a few. But the next step in my photographic/creative growth was how to

I had a few takeaways

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

I had a few takeaways Well, last year I had an entire syllabus laid out for the year and I was going in for the deep dive. And while I didn’t totally blow it off, I probably missed by a little more than half. Considering all that happened I don’t think that’s too bad. I read the first book, Zen Camera, with a friend of mine, Lori Z. We would zoom every week and read a chapter, give ourselves assignments based on what that chapter was about. Check in the next week, review and critique each other’s work. When

Monthly Challenge: Food Textures

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

It was a tough year

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Lewis De Joseph

It Was a Rough Year Well, the title should say it all. I’m not making excuses; it truly was a rough year. Shortly before my mom’s cancer started to spread, and the treatments left her no quality of life. So, she decided to discontinue them. My sister and I had major fights over whether or not she should drive, what kind of home care she should have and such things. Then as it progressed and got worse, it was what the PT was going to be and the home help with showering and cooking, home nursing and treatments she should have.

My Education Syllabus for 2024

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Lewis De Joseph

My Education Syllabus for 2024 Description:  I’d like to develop a creative skillset that will nurture and develop a creative lifestyle, to include photography in digital and analog forms. Apply other genres of creativity i.e., watercolors, encaustic, acrylic paints, pastels, or any other mediums that will feed my creative self. This will be accomplished with pursuit of videos, books, projects, and critiques. What I hope to learn: How to live photographically creative life Intermediate Photoshop skills Advanced Lightroom use Mixed media art utilizing my photography Readings and resources: Books Camera manuals Sony alpha a77ii, David D

My Personal Syllabus Or Better Yet “Who I Want to Be!”

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Lewis De Joseph

My Personal Syllabus Or Better Yet “Who I Want to Be!” About a year and a half ago, I made the decision to give up social media. I found it to be a time drain, a rabbit hole here and a rabbit hole there. All the arguing, dissention, bickering, it was absurd. It just didn’t seem worth it. I would come home from work and get online, then before I knew it, it was time to go to bed. Ten plus years ago, I gave up television for the same reason. I haven’t owned a TV or cable since. That’s

Monitcello, Slave Row Galler

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Lewis De Joseph

Monticello, Slave Row Gallery I left slave row for last, as it is by nature an issue still being resolved today through the “Black Lives Matter” and similar movements. It was easy to find a quote by Thomas Jefferson about slavery, but the point that he owned and used slavery to advance his life made that almost mute. The quote that I’m offering from him, I think reflects more the contradiction of the time he found himself in, without excusing the way he lived. While the Fredrick Douglass quote reflects the advancement of a people moving out of this