The Journey Into Art

On Friday, September 13, I will be having an opening and reception for my new work, which is an original presentation of landscape photography. I previously shared these prints at the Art in the Park in Parker, Colorado, on August 24-25...

After having a pivotal experience about 6 months ago and starting to produce landscape photography in a new way, I am now convinced of the uniqueness of this direction in the world of digital photographic art...

I know this is really boring, but if you can't master your camera, you can't make good photographs. Michelangelo had to master his paints and brushes before creating his paintings and frescoes...

So I decided I would take my camera with me on my daily walks with the dog. We walked along many places in the neighborhood, and I took pictures of what caught my eye...

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

This print was from a morning session south of Sedona, Arizona, shooting with a long lens...

This was a soft evening in early June at Devil's Garden outside of Torrey Utah. The forms and colors of the Garden and evening were rare and inviting.

I was tired from several days of dawn to dusk photo shoots and found the quiet meandering among these peculiar shapes on the north side of a wide draw refreshing...

This is the first a series of posts showing images that I had taken at the start of my photographic journey a number of years ago.

I am sharing these images and posts as a way of encouraging those starting out on this journey...

One of my hard things was that I came to photographic art after many years of professional training and experience in science and medicine. I had no formal art training, except for making paper mâché boxes in high school...