The Journey Into Art
focusing and limiting one's work allows for greater creativity
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...
November 2019 print of the month
This is one from the Transformed Landscape series that is a painting-like print made without any presets or custom modifications from other photographers. It is an example of a personally processed print made from years of experience developing my own personal style of processing the images I capture into a fine art print...
Objectivity about one's work
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:
1. Ask for feedback from those who you trust to give you genuine and honest feedback...
Stages Along The Way #3
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...
Before and After #6
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...
October 2019 print of the month
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...
Stages Along the Way #2 - Colors
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...
Where I started #3
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...