This is an image I didn’t make, on New Years Day… It’s all wings, sunlight and gravity-defying illusions. A half empty feeder suspended as if from a nonexistent cord sways precariously on the longest branch you’ve ever seen. This branch seems to defy gravity, with its 30 foot parallel stance to the ground. The branch…
I walked down to our local book shop here in Cleveland yesterday. Magdalena Sole was in town to sign her recently published book New Delta Rising. When I arrived, photography students from our local university were already engaged in dialogue with her. It was a wonderful exercise in sharing, listening, and teaching. One of the…
I saw this quote from Jonah Lehrer this morning and I thinks it’s a perfect meaning for what Rebirth is all about. “Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. ” – Jonah…
If you’re like me as a photographer we can get bored fairly quickly. Maybe it’s photographing in the same location over and over or let’s face it, sometimes it’s laziness. I’m guilty of that. I can never get enough information, enough inspiration but I need to push myself more. A while back I purchased the…
I received my first paycheck for my photography fifteen years ago, but I have to admit something . . . I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was “one of those photographers”. I had basically no training in still photography (though I did study documentary filmmaking in graduate school), but when I finally…
