The Journey Into Art (Stages Along The Way)

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I know this is really boring, but if you can't master your camera, you can't make good photographs. Michelangelo had to master his paints and brushes before creating his paintings and frescoes...