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When Wonder Leads
There were hundreds of little insects flying over the water, backlit by the sun, zigzagging in a mesmerizing parade of movement. I squinted, tried to follow one, tried to figure out how they flew in...
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Someone Has to Look at All That
Ten thousand. That’s what got me listening. I was in a workshop, during a break, and a group of students were chatting in the corner. Someone said he had been on a winter photo tour to Yellowstone...
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I head to museums hoping for insights and ideas, to be shaken or enlightened. Sometimes I find solace in pretty art, and sometimes I leave riveted with the unexpected, perhaps challenged to think way...
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Important Photos – Iris
Breakthroughs and moments of clarity are precious. “Aha” moments can catapult us further in our art and our understanding, and yet they can be elusive and infrequent. We wonder “How come mine don’t...
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Important Photos – Mushroom
In earlier days I worked with an earth education organization that was trying to do vital and different work in helping kids and adults build life long relationships with, and understandings about,...
View ArticleTurn Your Bad Photographs into Great Paintings
Two years ago, during a long delay at London’s Heathrow Airport, I spent a couple hours in a very large magazine store. The selection of photography magazines from across Europe surprised me, and also...
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Important Photo – My Son in an Alley
It is possible that the most important roll of film I ever shot was of my son in an alley, at midnight, in Avignon, France. Important because it was about family, images from that roll ended up...
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Important Photos – Spring
Last May I was asked to teach “A Natural Eye” for The Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society. They are sitting smack in the middle of a photographic gold mine, The Cuyahoga Valley National Park, just...
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Important Photos – Misty Dawn
There are times when you intuitively hone into an idea, and only later put your understanding into words. For years I worked on a series, “Gentle Edges”. It was a celebration of the beautiful line...
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The Moment of Now
I brought a film camera to Cuba last year for two reasons. For a week I wanted to leave behind all the trappings that surround digital (charger, batteries, hard drives, cables, laptop), and be free to...
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