The Journey Into Art

Creating photographic art has never been easier.

After reflecting on the events at a recent conference I attended, I became aware again of the growing ability to process images quickly...

I cannot recommend the Fine Art Summit hosted by Alain and Natalie Briot more highly.

Each year they provide 3+ days of world-class exposure to great places to photograph, but more importantly, exposure to industry masters, who share their experience in each of their unique photographic journeys...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...