Jul 17, 20212 minMaking Something Out Of SomethingIn my early years as a photographer, it was disconcerting to me that I could not both participate and observe life as it unfolded...
Jul 30, 20192 minComin' Home When I came to the desert at the tail end of 1974, it was to demo for my first potential client, the Cliff Brown Agency. My wife worked...
Jan 17, 20192 minA Life in the DayI have done some strange stuff to get photographs. My first year (3rd year of college) at Syracuse U. (1969-70) I broke into an abandoned...
Dec 3, 20184 minIs Photography Art? One of the more provocative quotes by a photographer: “Photography is not an art. Photography is more important than art. We...
Oct 16, 20182 minWhere does inspiration come from? How is that you can stare at an object (like a pool hose) for over 10 years and see nothing other than a pool hose, and then one day you...
Oct 9, 20182 min“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” That, of course is an Al Pacino line from the movie The Godfather Part III. Well, here I am, experiencing the same thing. I thought I was...
Oct 4, 20182 minCross my palm with silver Back in the late 60’s, before archival printing standards became common among dedicated darkroom workers, Kodak was the only game in...
Oct 1, 20182 minIt's like walking into a brick wallWith 38 or so seemingly outstanding photos of the flock of pigeons, it’s time to move on. The question of course, is, where to? I have...
Sep 29, 20182 minOn Photographing a Flock of PigeonsThinking and doing are mutually exclusive activities. Like the Pauli Exclusion Principle, they can’t both occupy the same space at the...