I truly appreciate your taking time to visit my site to see my work. The photos and art on display here are all work from my heart. I found my love of photography and art through travel and I suspect travel photography will always feature heavily amongst my portfolio. However, even as my love of photography sprung from travel, I also learned that to continue to grow in the craft, I had to turn my lens towards local scenes.
The valuable lesson I learned is that our world is beautiful if we’ll just open our eyes to it. This is how my print gallery comes to have art and photography featuring thousand year old temples rubbing shoulders with skyscrapers and rustic farm scenes on lonesome country roads. Once my eyes were opened, the journey of discovery continued and I eventually found myself also creating what I call “photo art” – using my photos to create textured images, sort of the mixed media of digital art. Everything I’ve read suggests one should really specialize but I seem destined to have a portfolio that includes an eclectic mix of travel photography, photos of Americana, and textured photo art.
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Best Foot Forward
There are days when I feel I have taken on never-ending projects! As long-term readers will know, I’ve been working on an update to my print collections – a rather involved one. I kept thinking soon I’ll finish and get to tell you all it’s done! And the best I can do now is say that it’s more or less complete, but that I also recognize that I’m rarely 100% satisfied with anything, so it can at best be considered somewhat complete. Minimally at least, I have re-written the descriptions for all the work in my print galleries and added and removed and added various pieces, but am I truly done? Of course not! And the initial project has ended up morphing even beyond that. For those who have never peeked, I have maintained an account at Flickr for nearly … Continue reading
Taste of Paris – New Prints Offered
I’ve been making major headway with re-working my online gallery, and the latest to join the completed stack are the prints on offer from Paris! I’ve said over and over again that Paris is easily the most photogenic place I’ve been. There are cities that I dearly love that were not as shockingly beautiful. And it’s made the task of selecting what to include in my gallery even harder. In fact, I’m almost certain I’ll be rotating work in and out of this gallery in the future. This is probably the only print gallery I re-worked and the number of pieces in it grew instead of declined. Even removing work, I added enough to offset it. Not exactly a tragedy but not the norm, I assure. Before I introduce a small selection of new Paris Prints, I wanted to announce … Continue reading
Dream Tree and Sunset on Nicaragua
Still going full-steam ahead on my print collection revamp, but happy to say that I can very nearly see the end in sight! It’s been a long time coming, but it’s been very worthwhile. What originally started as just re-writing the descriptions of each image eventually became revisiting a host of photos from the past, which lead naturally to some new work being added. I’m not sure if I’m alone in this regard, but typically when I take photos locally I tend to edit the bulk of them shortly afterwards. When I travel for weeks or more and build a large catalog of images, when I return, some of those images don’t get touched for quite some time. This is how it came to be that as I worked my way back through my images from my 2009 trip to … Continue reading
Rustic Alabama – Asa Johnston Home
I’ve been back from my winter adventure for several weeks now, but rather than working on the many photos I took in Quebec and New York, I’ve been trying to wrap up last year’s project to update my galleries along with a few unplanned side projects. Rather than reporting on the progress on my gallery update, though, what I wanted to share today was a nice break from trying to pick and choose what to include in my print collections. One of my cousins recently suggested she’d like to see my take on one of the photos from our visit to the Asa Johnston home in Conecuh County, Alabama. I was hesitant at first. That trip was almost a decade ago and while I’ve long enjoyed taking photos, the ones from that trip were from a time before I really … Continue reading
Bon Voyage 2011
As many of you know, I’ve been hard at work revisiting all the work in my print collections. Gallery by gallery, I’ve been re-editing work where I felt necessary (which for me is the fun part) and then deciding what prints to include in my revised gallery and re-writing the descriptions of each and every piece. I’m trying to include more details whether I describe the moment or process behind an image or simply why I personally find it special. That latter part is what has taken me so long, especially picking and choosing. I often have similar images from the same location and if I have trouble choosing, I suspect it could confound those looking for the perfect piece for their home, office, etc. Even though I’m keeping my galleries leaner, all the runner-up images are kept on hand, … Continue reading