Glasgow, 2025 There are two events that keep me from publishing a photograph or work of digital art: First, it has to keep drawing me back to it, like I can't get it out of my mind. And second, I have to find some poem or quote that captures the essence or feeling the image invokes in me. Sometimes, I'll look at an image a dozen or more times, over the course of as many days or even weeks, only to decide it doesn't consume me as I had originally thought. Sometimes, I'll decid

Glasgow, 2025 It's interesting how an image can draw you in (out?) and in searching for the meaning, the reason perhaps that this image captured my attention, I find a connection to something else equally as compelling. In this case, I found a poem called Remembrance Day by Marion Angus, a Scottish poet, forerunner of a Scottish Renaissance in the inter-war period marking a transition from the lowland language tradition of Robert Burns to the modernists like Hugh MacDiarmid

Building Under Construction, View from the Scottish Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, November 2025 I arrived in Edinburgh to a cold and rainy day. I was in the beginning throes of a cold, and my trip was winding down. I had to ride the train from Glasgow to Edinburgh, a trip of about one and half hours. Despite the weather, the city was teeming with people. There was no chance I'd get to take pictures without catching someone at some point, so I decided to loo

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (2025) One day while I was walking the streets of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria with a group of other artists, I happened to notice one who would stop periodically, point her camera up, into the sun, at the edge of a non-descript building. I asked her what she could possibly be photographing. She just smiled and carried on. While we were taking a break at a local café, she pulled out her camera and scrolled through the pictures she had taken to show exac