Bethany Beach I’m starting this first post of this series of posts from my trip to Delaware on the last day of my trip.  We got up before sunrise to go to the ocean side of Bethany Beach.  There’s something a little ironic about that. The trip was ending just as the day was beginning. While everything around me was starting fresh, I was standing there at the finish line.  I was packed, the van loaded and I was dreading to go home.  Camera in hand, we arrived just as the entire sun rose above the horizon.  But that was

  I feel I’ve always been a Creative.  I started with photography.  In my early 20s I went to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Where I took several classes for the creative and technical sides of the camera.  Then I built a darkroom in a spare bedroom and took classes around that part of this creative medium.  Then the digital era came upon us and transformed the medium, in ways that I could never even have imagined.  For several reasons I was slow to embrace it. The cost of entry was very high back then; I didn’t even

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