Choices
Moonrise, Grand Canyon NP, 2006 We had a family gathering of sorts the other evening – we don’t have many, maybe once or twice a year – and spent some time talking about my younger brother’s recent...
View ArticleThe Nature of Nature
Road to Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah Still going through “old” images of the southwest. For a couple of reasons. First, it’s an interesting exercise whenever you go to the next version of Photoshop or,...
View ArticleEncounters with the Here and There
Sunrise, Stonington Harbor, Maine (2004) “There was no there, there”. (Gertrude Stein) For the last several months I’ve been going through thousands of photographs, essentially rebuilding my...
View ArticleUgly Anne
Ugly Anne, Perkins Cove, Maine Well this is kind of fun. After I decided to try the selective color thing in Silver Efex Pro 2, I needed to find an image to work on. One with some red in it. So what...
View ArticleThe Unanswered Question
I’m not an expert on the history of photography. I’m also not someone who can talk endlessly about “famous” photographers and their styles. As the saying goes, I probably know just enough to be...
View Article“Just Because” isn’t an Answer
In hindsight, some of the responses to my last post were predictable. As were some of the responses to my friend Ken’s posting (an “answer” to my post) on his own site. “Predictable” because we’ve...
View ArticleArrested Development
”Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five”....
View Article2012: A Blank Slate?
Shit Happens One of my favorite newspaper writers is a guy named Craig Wilson. He may do other things as well, but my exposure to him comes from the weekly article he does for USA Today. It’s...
View ArticleLanguage is a Bitch (Part II)
About a year ago I wrote a short piece comparing thousand year-old petroglyphs (images engraved in stone by early Native Americans) to images we find today, whether they be carefully painted murals on...
View ArticleThe Steve McCurry Kerfuffle
Light trail, Arches NP, Utah “Once more, into the breach”. Sorry, William. But your famous line from Henry V seems to apply here. Once again we’re going to debate the ethics of photo-manipulation....
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