The Journey Into Art (Experiences)
September 2019 newsletter
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...
A path into the wilderness
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...
Where I Started series #1
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...
Doing something difficult
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...
The film vs digital paradigm shift.
IF you do the following, you are following a film paradigm (while shooting with a digital camera):
1. You do nothing to the image that comes out of the camera and print without processing...
WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get
It should be plain that you can only capture what you see. Yet when starting out and trying to focus on something to photograph (other than everything), one must see first and then capture the image...
Seeing (and touching) is believing
I have read a fair amount about the southwest US and the ancient ones who had lived there. I have seen many pictures of ruins of their dwellings and other artifacts found. Unfortunately that is all head stuff to me...
Questions About My Work #5 _ What camera gear do you use?
This is the fifth of a series of 5 posts expanding on questions people had asked me when discussing my work and artistic experiences at a recent show. They are published as part of the exploration of my creative life...