The Journey Into Art

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...

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...

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

This is the image as it came out of the camera and was imported into Lightroom with only the default Camera Raw settings, i...

Driving around the Escalante area in Utah, one is met often with bland flatness or that same old red you see all over the Southwest. Yet a turn in the road or view around a corner can show a dramatically changed landscape...