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...

So, I'm doing this photography course and the latest assignment I tackled was Expression Photo. Ask yourself a question, then observe the...

My grandmother use to keep a round flat mirror on her dressing table...On the mirror on her dressing table she collected perfume bottles.

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

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it." Vincent van Gogh On my first full day...

"There's no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality." Pablo Picasso According...

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

Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, May 2023 I may have mentioned that I am fascinated by surrealism, by the artists like Dali on the one...

I've become fascinated by collodion wet plate photography. My friend and mentor, Rebecca Pujals-Jones, invited me once for a day in the...

As I prepare for my artists residency at the Chateau d'Orquevaux, I've been trying out different post-production techniques for my...

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." Iris Murdoch This is a palm frond. I've...

Sally Mann has said that "part of the artists job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the...

Ansel Adams said, "there are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." And who decides what is a good photograph...

Paulo Coelho said "the simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." Now that I've had some time...

"First of all, move me, surprise, rend my heart; Make me tremble, weep, shudder, outrage me! Delight my eyes, afterwards, if you can . ....

"If solitude exists, and I don't know if it does, one should certainly have the right to dream of it occasionally as paradise." (Albert...