The Journey Into Art

Water seems so innocuous. It seems to make us wet and uncomfortable when caught in the rain. It seems so benign when we are in the shower. We don't though think much about it when we are dry...

Creativity goes away when the most important thing in life is surviving.

As most know, my primary profession is medicine, and the past 6-8 weeks have been quite hectic, to say the least. Thankfully I have not had to fight for the survival of my life nor for others in my personal and professional circles...

I have begun to move into work that looks more closely at the land at my feet.

I have always thought that capturing the big landscape was most important...

How does one start on an artistic journey in landscape photography? I knew from the first time I invested in my first “good” digital camera; I would eventually want to express something unique in my work...

While wandering along Oak Creek, south of Sedona, I came to see an enticing site, a beautiful oak leaf in a small pool of water in the sandstone bedrock. Staring more I saw the reflection of the surrounding fall trees...

I have read a lot about creativity and even tried to write about it myself.

I have concluded that talking about and writing about creativity is like walking around a well and only describing what is in it with the simple term "water"...

I see many, many ads for tools that help you create images (and I presume prints) fast with presets or other shortcuts.

Most of my best works take 1+-5+ hours to create. The farther I go along this path, the more time it takes for me to finish a piece...

Sometimes one afternoon's and evening's experience lasts for months. So it was with this evening at Muley Point in southeastern Utah.

Everything came together to make a most remarkable several hours of capturing the breadth of a spring evening in the desert...