The Journey Into Art
Joys of the Path of Photography - My Early Years
(This is the full text submitted for publication on several photography websites.)
Introduction
I am a technical professional who wanted to become an artist in his middle years. I confess that I had no previous art training except for making papier-mâché boxes in high school!
I learned that the Internet could not teach me what I needed, except perhaps how to take an average travel photo...
Thoughts on Creativity #4 – What happens next – Wandering through the forest of life
“Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.
How hard it is to tell what it was like,
this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn
(the thought of it brings back all my old fears),
a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer...
Thoughts on Creativity #3 – The First Moment of Creativity - Diverging from the path of others
“Look to your right... It is the path back home. If you choose, you can take it. It is safe, easy, and comfortable. You do not have to work out or fight or do anything else you do not want to...
Thoughts on Creativity #2 - My First Photography Project
“If one says ‘red’ – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds...
Thoughts on Creativity #1 – Medicine vs. Art – technique vs. creativity
If you are willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being
an artist.
-Seth Godin
As many know, I spend most of my days practicing medicine, so my thoughts and opinions are those of a middle-aged person coming into photography as an art form...
Before and After #7
It has been more than a year from the last one in this series, so I thought I would carry on with a review of one from my most recent project "Walls in Motion".
This project will be the first exhibit after the COVID restrictions ease, probably late next summer or fall...
San Juans in the fall - day 3 Hovenweep Pueblo
Hovenweep Pueblo was occupied from around 1200-1300 CE. All signs of occupation were really gone by 1280 CE. The site has not been fully excavated, so we only know some generalities about the area.
The architecture is similar to archeological ruins in Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico...
San Juans in the fall - day 3 Holly Group Pueblo
What in the world were they doing building something so beautiful on a rock???
They say it was for a structure to retreat to in the event of an attack. That sounds very plausible to me, given the description of the times...