Red Barn ~ Spring 2010

Blacktop Road ~ Spring 2010

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Not to make light of Descartes' dualistic insight I might be tempted to say, "I see therefore I exist!" But that would be disingenuous, so I won't go there. Learning to see is developin

Making photographs, especially those made as self-assignment works, always is a statement of deep commitment to one’s subject. These photographs are made to be interrogated, to be exami

What is it about a photograph that causes people to think of an image as somehow acting in place of the reality of that which has been photographed. The notion that a picture is worth a thousand word

Hanging just above the trees that protect a gift shop near Desert View by the Grand Canyon the nearly full moon sparkled in the sky. I stopped for a second, set up my tripod, framed the image and

There are two great mistakes made by those first entering the field of photography. The first is to overrate the value of one’s equipment while the second is the tendency to be satisfied by a

Images are always there hiding in plain sight. Most are missed, even by those with a strong sense of vision. Sometimes, however, images sometimes seem to jump out demanding to be photographed.

I made this photograph outside of Nashville while there for a funeral of a relative. It at moments like these that one realizes how small one’s world really is; how narrow one’s vi

There are places on this earth that I never tire of, whether I am merely looking or actively photographing. The Grand Canyon is one of those places. The richness of colors layered upon colors, th

Point of view is something developed over time. It comes from practice, the rejection of more images than one decides to keep, and the application of that experience into creating intense images

Things ask me to take their pictures. When I am out in the world intending to make photographs I am generally moved by something visually screaming for me to make a photograph. I am looking for those

Kavanagh’s quip is not only demeaning to policemen (as well as any others who work for a living) but it debases art. Shakespeare wrote, not for the nobility, rather, he wrote for th

An old proverb reminds us that wherever you go, there you are. There is no escape from the presence of the self. Often this bit of folk wisdom is shared when one is contemplating escape from a plac

I make photographs because the making of images helps me understand my place in the universe. Making photographs as art is a unique way of thinking about space, time, place, light, and so muc

Ralph Haber claims that one remembers what one saw in a photograph after the photograph is no longer there. I am not so sure that one remembers specifically what one saw; more to the point, one e

There is a tone of arrogance in Grossman's words. The assumption that only photographers understand the world around them rubs me the wrong way. What Grossman might have said (and I really think

Photography, any visual art for that matter, but photography in particular is about learning to see. Everyone looks but not everyone sees. What is the difference? Looking is indiscriminate in t

On one count, and one count only, Goldsmith, while not entirely wrong, is far too bombastic for my taste. The camera does not lie, the camera is the photographer’s tool for re-prese

Before photography there was only memory to make impressions on one’s mind. There was the place and, if one was fortunate enough to see such a place, there was a trace left behind of a co

The ruins at Wupatki are a but a trace of a thriving culture living on the Colorado Plateau as little as 800 years ago. This photograph of the ruins re-presents both an artifact of the existence of t

Making photographs is, to a large extent, a visual compromise between the origins and the print. Technique will only take one so far; an internalization of the craft contributes to the ability

When I first began seriously making images I shot everything I could find in my viewfinder. A roll of PlusX lasted but minutes; I knew when I was finished because I had no more film. The simple tru

Learning to see in a photographic sense means that one has acquired skills that lead directly to what Cartier-Bresson called the decisive moment. One must learn to gaze patiently at the whole of what

In late December I was in Phoenix visiting my 11 year old grandson. He has an interest in photography and asked me to help him learn something about making pictures. Off we went on a journey of disco

I have been making photographs since I was 13 years old, some 53 years ago, when I discovered magic in the darkroom as images appeared as negatives on film and positives on photographic paper rig

Photography has developed my ability to see, to look at, to gaze, to directly experience the moment of existence that confirms the exteriority of the Absolute Other while scratching at the door

Every photograph is a manipulation of, an interpretation of its origins. The very idea that a photograph is not manipulated, that it is a true rendering of something labeled reality, is wrong-h