“Candlelight” is a good image to discuss several things to consider when designing a photograph. First, the use of a single light source. In a studio setting, using a single light and eliminating daylight gives you a special effect that is often used for high contrast black and white images as well as color. One […]

To feel beautiful is to feel alive. To feel alive means that body and mind are confident, content, healthy. Poet Mary Oliver speaks to this eloquently in her poem called: POEM OF THE ONE WORLD “This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water and then into the sky of this the […]

“Zion Meadow” is an image created just outside Zion National Park in southern Utah. The Park is aptly named, as one of the meanings of the word is heaven or utopia, and this magnificent park is a little of both. Zion park lies near the town of Springdale, Utah, with it’s B&Bs and camp grounds. […]

“Waterholes Canyon” is another image fron northern Arizona and the slot canyons on the Navajo Nation. Todays note is some thoughts on beauty. ….there is a silent language of our whole being which yearns for art and the beauty from which art comes.—Rollo May The relationship between art and beauty is one of ongoing controversy, […]

“Waiting For You” – shifts the focus from the beautiful landscape to the body as the object of beauty as introduced in my last blog. I believe it captures the essence very well, as the body is presented against a black and featureless background that isolates it in space. The title–“Waiting For You”–sets the mood […]

Venice is being reclaimed by the very waters that protected her in centuries past. Joined to the mainland by an elevated railway, there are no cars in venice, and everything and everybody move either by foot or by boat. The “freeway” through town is the Grand Canal in the photo where taxi boats, commercial boats, […]