The Journey Into Art

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...

Little did I know at the time how important projects would become in my work. It took me many years to actually figure it out.

As my friend Alain has said, "Projects are important, because they make you focus...

This is the fifth in the series of Before and After images that shows what came out of the camera and what subsequently went on paper.

This image came from a late spring sunset at Devil's Garden, outside of Torrey, Utah...

This is one 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...