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Making Something Out Of Something

In my early years as a photographer, it was disconcerting to me that I could not both participate and observe life as it unfolded...

Comin' 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...

A Life in the Day

I 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...

Is Photography Art?

One of the more provocative quotes by a photographer: “Photography is not an art. Photography is more important than art. We...

Where 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...

“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...

Cross 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...

It's like walking into a brick wall

With 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...

On Photographing a Flock of Pigeons

Thinking and doing are mutually exclusive activities. Like the Pauli Exclusion Principle, they can’t both occupy the same space at the...