Category: Ideas & Thoughts

  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 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 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 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