Oxherding Is Fun

I spent the morning yesterday volunteering at Art City Austin which became measurably harder than it should have been given the fierce storm that blew through the night before turning over exhibit stands.  The perk of volunteering in the before hours of the show is that you get to help artists and photographers without the [...]

Every time I get deep into digital editing, as I did recently with many HDR processed images and some selective color work, I am always drawn back to the basics and simplicity in photographic technique.  With all of the whiz-bang, special digital processing of imagery it is good to remember the fundamentals of photography and [...]

I enjoy pictures where imagination comes into play.  Such as below where you have to wonder just what is hidden in that lurking blackness within the fissure of the rock.  Dark areas, because of natural human apprehension, work well well to engage our imagination.  Another area that can easily peak our viewers imagination is street [...]

There are two moments when I fell in love with photography. One involved a camera and one did not. The first was one day I was walking though the central Missouri woodlands and came upon a small pool of muddy water where I visualized a possible image with reflections. I started seeing that day. Much [...]

Yes, there is a tiny speck of a human climber in this image of El Capitan.  Climbing has always enthralled me and I love to read books of adventurous climbs. These take me back to my days of wonder, carelessness and almost fearless youth.  We did not know it then but we would do what [...]

Visit Yosemite and see why it is designated a World Heritage Site!

Ansel Adams wrote “Visualization is a conscious process of projecting the final photographic image in the mind before taking the first steps in actually photographing the subject” in his book The Negative.  As we hiked through Yosemite last Autumn I did see this image before I touched my camera.  I saw Adam’s Zone System applied [...]

Which weighs more as it floats in the Merced: El Capitan or the Leaves of Autumn?

Nearly twenty years ago I sat alone in my basement home office realizing I made choices that I would spend a lifetime correcting; but happily so.  I sat there with the realization that I turned my back on my natural talents and made life decisions that were safe and in the best fiscal interest of [...]