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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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
Award Winning Project
After deciding to leave Atlanta in mid 2009, I returned home to Montezuma, Georgia. While I wasn’t born here, I was young enough when I came here that I don’t remember any other place I’d call home. I had often taken photos here when visiting on the odd weekend, but it was the first chance I’d had since becoming enchanted by photography to really take the time to explore Montezuma with my camera. As it turned out, this time to explore had the unlikely fortune to coincide with a project spearheaded by Camille Bielby of the Montezuma Downtown Development Authority. She had gotten a small grant to create a guide featuring Montezuma’s historic district. Since the project was near and dear, I donated my time to photograph far more of my home town than I might have otherwise. The resulting … Continue reading
A Year of Pictures Later
It’s been several days now since my 365 project ended. Quite a mixture of feelings seeing it come to a conclusion. First, having been sick a couple of times during this project, there’s a slight bit of relief. I was actually sick enough at one point that I strongly considered pausing the project for a few days. There were a couple of reasons I didn’t. First, I really wanted it to be a consecutive 365 days, and second, once stopped, I was afraid I’d never get the energy back to push on again. Sometimes inertia is too easy to maintain! The rules for the project were my own and not in stone, but I decided to stand by them. At any rate, when that last picture rolled off the line, I was shocked. Was it really 365 days? I went … Continue reading
Photography and Reality
One of the interesting questions I often get about my photos, aside from what camera do you use, is if I’ve altered the photo in anyway. I always find the question interesting because I suspect a painter would not get asked that question nearly so much. Painters are practically expected to take artistic license with a scene. In fact, I well recall in college that one of the professors in our art department felt there was no need for photo-realistic painting as you ‘have a camera for that.’ I know in the history of photography it took a good deal of time for it become accepted as an artform in its own right. There was the initial concern that photography was a simple recording of reality and didn’t involve an artistic process. This, of course, is not true. Just as it takes … Continue reading
Manhattan Skyline
Little did I know until too late to write this post that yesterday (May 24th) was the anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. I may have missed the boat, but it put me in mind that I had yet to do a post here on the blog featuring one of my favorite pieces of photo art from the past year! Not only am I very happy with how this picture turned out, I have gotten a lot of nice feedback in response to it! The photo at the basis of this digital art was taken on my so far only visit to New York City back in 2009. One evening there friends and I made our way over to Brooklyn to see the Manhattan skyline at dusk, which was quite an incredible view! I actually have … Continue reading