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

Palacio Real Madrid, España, 2025 Every morning, before launching into the work for the day, I would search the internet for a new quote,...

My great grandfather William Theodore Grund, called Billy for all of his adult life, started working in 1893 at age 15, as a clerk...

Honfleur, France (2024) It's been more than a year since I created this image. And still I keep returning to it. Edward William Cooke...

I give a lot of thought to why I take the pictures I take, and the only consistent answer I come up with is that something catches my...

Much was changing in the village of Antonchico as it entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century. By then, the town boasted of...

The word "tradition" literally means to hand over for safekeeping. I always thought of my grandmother as the keeper of the traditions,...

Two people gaze at a photograph--an open door to an empty room, a pair of shoes under the corner of an iron bedstead, a stack of...

My grandson's first birthday is coming up, and I thought, there isn't anything that children like more than animals and bright colors....

There is a mission church at the edge of the village, on the road to the main highway almost dead center between Vaughn and Santa Rosa....

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh

"Every moment is a window on all time." Thomas Wolfe As I prepare for my next artist in residence experience, I can't help but put it...

The building stands alone now, surrounded by a barbed wire fence from which even the laziest of sheep could escape. Beyond it the pasture...

Tim Carpenter says, in his essay "To Photograph is to Learn How to Die, that intervention of the sort described by Flannery O'Connor as...

"The camera is in some ways a sketchbook drawn in time and space, and it is also an admirable instrument that seizes life just as it...

I don't believe in coincidence. A month ago I started an on-line workshop called Photography to Get to Know Yourself. I thought this...

My next assignment for the workshop, Photography to Get to Know Yourself, is called Inventory. Using photography, we're to inventory...

The Tate Galleries define abstract as "art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality but instead uses...

"What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality." Ruth...