The Blog
On photography and things like that
Where thoughts and pictures become words.
Remembering Twenty Fourteen
For the last four years I have put together a collection of my favorite images of the past year. I seem to think I do this because others do it.
The Conscious Endeavor
Art seems to be a galaxy within a universe in which some choose to visit. We try, possibly unknowingly, to understand ourselves through various means.
What Photography Has Taught Me
Wouldn't you like to be happy three days a week? How about four? How about every day? What if you could be happy or at minimum what if you could experience happiness every day of your life? Would your life be different? Would it be better? Sound impossible?
We Are What We Eat
A few times a year I find myself looking at things differently. Things like photography, trying to live a creative life. I am always wondering the best way to go about it.
Shunga Creek Visit
Some years back I discovered that it can be quite colorful along the creeks edge with the leaves that have fallen and still hanging on to color. It becomes challenging looking for patterns and intricate designs.
Catching Up
Yeah I still know how to write and get a post here! The last month plus has been a somewhat of a whirlwind of comings and goings. It is hard to believe Autumn has come and now looks like it has gone.
Making The Most Of Each Moment
Happy October! I believe October may be my favorite month. It has seemed that way most of my life. There may be many reasons reaching way back to my childhood.
The Subjective Artist
Photography by it's shear nature seems to struggle in it's distinguishing of these two counter approaches. In the beginning a photograph had but one purpose, to document. This could be a specific time, event, or moment but the purpose was purely documentation. This great grandfather mindset of photography holds firmly to this day. Though it is safe to say the vast majority now expect a photograph to be something more than just a documentary thing. At what point does a photograph cease being documentary and start being subjective? When indeed.
Kansas Museum of History
In May of this year I was contacted by the Director of the Kansas Museum of History about a new display they were going to install in the main entry area of the gallery. They were looking for 7 images that depicted Kansas and Kansas history to be used as a wall mural. 6 of these images would be displayed in a postcard format over a main wall mural. The wall mural was to be 38 feet wide by 12 feet high and span a 3 angled wall!
Growing Pains Part II
I came across a saying yesterday that seemed to make a good deal of sense to me at the present time. It was actually from a fortune cookie. "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
Growing Pains
Can you believe it! After a week I have this site back on the world wide web! I first want to say thank you to all who have checked here during the last week and have still decided to [...]
August 21
It seems to be everywhere but eludes me in how to properly capture it.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~Lao Tzu