The Journey Into Art (Experiences)
Mono Lake grasses
One windy June afternoon I was wandering along a boardwalk over a delicate grassland near the shore of Mono Lake. Laid down in the field was last year's grasses and up through them came this year's green stalks...
August 2021 project Pictures Within Pictures - Abstract Walls And Triptychs open house and reception
Today I had an open house and reception for the presentation of this project.
It was very well received and gratifying to talk to so many people about my work and its evolution over the last 12 years...
Four years of Prints of the Month
Moments of Creativity and Spontaneity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something...
The Playa
The true wilderness experience is one, not of escaping but of finding one’s self by seeking the wilderness.
- Howard Zahniser
A playa is a dried-up lake bed within a desert basin...
Joys of the Path of Photography – My Recent Years
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I am a technical professional who wanted to become an artist in his middle years...
Joys of the Path of Photography - My Early Years
(This is the full text accepted for publication on petapixel.com and photopxl.com.)
IntroductionI 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...