The Journey Into Art (Stages Along The Way)
Four years of Prints of the Month
July 16, 2021 | various
On a whim I decided to see when I started the Print of the Month series. I was astounded to see that it was over four years ago (four years and four months to be precise)!! Alain Briot had encouraged me years ago to make that artistic commitment...
Moments of Creativity and Spontaneity
July 10. 2021
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something...
The Playa
June 6, 2021
The true wilderness experience is one, not of escaping but of finding one’s self by seeking the wilderness.
- Howard Zahniser
A playa is a dried-up lake bed within a desert basin...
When the creativity goes away
March 30, 2020
Creativity goes away when the most important thing in life is surviving.
As most know, my primary profession is medicine, and the past 6-8 weeks have been quite hectic, to say the least. Thankfully I have not had to fight for the survival of my life nor for others in my personal and professional circles...
How do you create art with your landscape photography?
February 12, 2020
How does one start on an artistic journey in landscape photography? I knew from the first time I invested in my first “good” digital camera; I would eventually want to express something unique in my work...
Good art is slow
January 7, 2020
I see many, many ads for tools that help you create images (and I presume prints) fast with presets or other shortcuts.
Most of my best works take 1+-5+ hours to create. The farther I go along this path, the more time it takes for me to finish a piece...
focusing and limiting one's work allows for greater creativity
November 9, 2019
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...
Stages Along The Way #3
October 23, 2019
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...