The Journey Into Art
How do you create art with your landscape photography?
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...
February 2020 print of the month
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...
Writing about creativity
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"...
Good art is slow
This afternoon the winds came strong off the mountains back onto the dunes, pushing them back out to the valley.
The constant back and forth of the morning and evening winds have kept these dunes stationary for thousands of years...
January 2020 print of the month
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...
Virga
Virga are streaks of rain beneath a cloud, but the rain never reaches the ground. I've also heard it called dry rain. Until this plane flight I'd never seen virga from above. Not much of a cloud above the virga...
What is art to me?
What is art to me?
This is a remarkably vital question. I have been a physician for over 34 years as of this writing.
What I carry into my art starts from the many years of observation I have practiced in medicine...
The camera and the subject
A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never know the real moon...