The Blog
On photography and things like that
Where thoughts and pictures become words.
The Value of Creative Expression
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. -Ray Bradbury A somewhat lost realm of photography, originality is at the heart [...]
Art & The Misunderstood
To be great is to be misunderstood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I should be clear at the start here. The title, "Art & The Misunderstood" is not about misunderstood art. Though that is part of it. I am referring to [...]
April 2018 Update & Info
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. -Stephen Hawking For those who are used to seeing regular updates including images on social media mainly facebook you will have noticed I have [...]
Pursuing The Title
The fundamental difference between art and beauty is that art is about who has produced it, whereas beauty depends on who’s looking. -Chiara Leonardi It comes to the surprise of many who read my Philosophy on the about page [...]
Color Of The Year 2018
I typically don't go looking for specific colors, but it is always nice to find such a variety throughout nature. Even something such as ultra violet!
Lessons Learned
I will not attempt to go into them all, but some stand out more than others.
Motives & Conflicts
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. -Francis [...]
Thorns Of Reality
“Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.” ― David Bayles and Ted Orland It is becoming more difficult. Many are reluctant, and many more seem [...]
Site Update Info
I always feel a need to share information concerning this website when it may have or will effect you the visitor. If you have visited this website over the last week you may have seen things looking a little [...]
Visual Literacy
What can we do to help us understand the impact of our own visual literacy?
Photography’s Great Problem
In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits. -Georges Braque Upon reading a recent commentary by Brooks Jensen concerning a piece of art created by Bruce Barnbaum this sentence struck a chord with me. [...]
The Great Deception
They are no longer dreams or dance steps or outcries of the soul, they are simply planned productions, fabrications, pralines for the public.
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