The Journey Into Art

I cannot recommend the Fine Art Summit hosted by Alain and Natalie Briot more highly.

Each year they provide 3+ days of world-class exposure to great places to photograph, but more importantly, exposure to industry masters, who share their experience in each of their unique photographic journeys...

These words "focusing and limiting one's work allows for greater creativity" are some of the most misunderstood and disbelieved words I have ever heard. How can limiting oneself result in greater creativity? That make no sense, right? Greater freedom should result in greater creativity...

An morning just inside Capital Reef National Park near Fruita, Utah.

This is one from the Transformed Landscape series that is a painting-like print made without any presets or custom modifications from other photographers...

Fall Colors in Colorado

It is very hard to be objective about one's work. There is too much emotion and too much of "I love this picture" in the way.

That is why it is important to do two things:

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In late 2010 I went for my first dedicated photo trip. This was the first purposeful trip I had taken with the specific goal of completing a photographic project about a specific place.

(This was a breakthru in understanding the need to go to a specific place with a specific goal, in this case a project about the Black Canyon...

This is one of my early prints, exploring the blasphemous activity of altering the form and colors of my images to express something more than the few modifications most landscape photographers change in their images...

This is another of the most liked prints from my new collection, The Transformed Landscape.

This was originally captured on a most remarkable evening looking south from Muley Point in southeastern Utah, looking onto the north side of Monument Valley...

People much more versed in the theory of art and color have spent much of their lives writing about and explaining color. I have nothing to contribute to that erudite discussion. But I can share my own movement into the understanding of color in my art...