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October 13, 2024 - We all begin with a SOOC image. Everyone of us does. What is a SOOC image? It’s a Straight Out Of Camera image. One that...

February 03, 2024 - Between being exposed (yes, that’s a pun 😉) to the work of Jerry Uelsmann at an early stage in my photography, and then...

January 18, 2024 - This image titled, “I’ve Just Seen A Face Series ~ Metropolis (Tape residue on metal)” I was only able to notice and the...

January 15, 2024 - The title of this post is attributed to Alan Watts who was an American philosopher and teacher of Zen Buddhism in the We...

November 21, 2023 - Sometime back I wrote a post about how photographers should not spend time searching for a “style” to set themselves apa...

November 05, 2023 - “Ceci n’est pas un visage” But it could be. With the utmost respect for René Magritte and his iconic image of surreal...

August 10, 2023 - Fear is a powerful thing, and it has a useful purpose in our survival. That said, it can best be utilized as a guide, an...

July 15, 2023 - When it comes to creating (*generating) images using Artificial Intelligence tools, I ask students (really any photograp...

June 29, 2023 - So what is all the uproar about Artificial Intelligence and the creation of images/artwork? I have a few thoughts 💭… No...

June 23, 2023 - A while back I did a video tutorial on how I create LUTs using Affinity Photo to color grade images and import them into...

November 06, 2022 - This is the first in a series of 11 blogposts in the “Used Film” series describing the thought processes, creative decis...

November 06, 2022 - This image of a ram’s skull was fairly simple to photograph, it was in the “processing” that the qualities really brough...

November 06, 2022 - If you are following this Used Film series in order, you’ll recognize the technique I used to get this second ram’s skul...

November 06, 2022 - This image titled, “Feather, Stone, and Light” was inspired by the title track from the collaborative album of the same...

November 06, 2022 - Ah, now this image I feel was truly inspired! What is it? Technically it was created as a background only for a watch ad...

November 06, 2022 - This image was originally created for an editorial cover illustrating the human senses. This one turns up the notch on c...

November 06, 2022 - Orchids are beautiful subjects to photograph whether in color or Black & White. For this one I chose to photograph it us...

November 06, 2022 - This image, unique from the others in this series, comes from a 35mm Black & White infrared film negative re-photographe...

November 06, 2022 - So, you have to make a course to teach students about all the creative fine art possibilities of various Polaroid films.

November 06, 2022 - So now we get to the place with Polaroid film where I spent the most time to master, the famous Polaroid Transfer techni...

November 06, 2022 - This image I’ve titled “When Picasso Met Josephine” is the last in the Used Film series, and another example of using th...

October 16, 2022 - I love beauty and beautifully designed things. The adage that “form follows function” is true, and when both are in perf...

May 16, 2021 - Picasso was asked, "When do you know a painting is 'finished'?," to which he is reported to have replied, "When it is si...

May 05, 2021 - Sometimes, once in a great while perhaps, you come across a pair of image editing softwares that play so well together y...

March 16, 2021 - If you are an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber you probably know by now Adobe has just released an update to their separa...

December 20, 2020 - This final portrait edit was created entirely in Apple's Aperture software here at the end of 2020. Yes, I'm still runni...

October 22, 2020 - Exposure X5 (NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 vs.True B+W Conversion LUT) As an artist and photographer I'm not one to go by numbe...

January 12, 2020 - A funny thing happened on the way to the future... I decided to go back. No, not back to 1985 but more like 2014. Since...

December 13, 2019 - "Sensei: Portrait of Jerry Uelsmann" "You can do that?!" That was a revelatory question a young photography student nam...

January 27, 2014 - I've always smiled at the thought of American Poet Robert Frost's epitaph, which reads, "I Had A Lover's Quarrel With Th...

January 19, 2014 - Feeling nostalgic for things we grew up with is as natural to humans as breathing. We're simply wired for nostalgia. Som...

November 26, 2013 - Creating a new body of work can start with a whiff of inspiration from anywhere, and that inspiration can come to you at...

November 12, 2013 - These two images of my mother's hands are part of a new project I'm working on; a long term project to create portraits...

November 07, 2013 - Creating a completely unique and customizable look to your images can be as easy and fun as painting with textured brush...

October 31, 2013 - So what exactly is " style", and why are so many photographers looking for it? Put a group of photographers together: pr...

October 20, 2013 - This two part tutorial on creating fine, textured overlays and backgrounds for creative portraits, is a companion piece...

October 03, 2013 - This tutorial on creating tintype textured backgrounds and overlays for creative portraits was inspired by a recent crea...

September 23, 2013 - Apple Wallpaper Some two years + since Steve Jobs passed on, his legacy for the pursuit of sheer excellence is still...

May 08, 2013 - Ah, Paris! City of Lights, City of Love, City of Culture, City of Photography. The history of photography, relatively sh...

May 06, 2013 - I believe I fell in love this past April 20th, on the last day of Maggie Taylor's exhibition at the Polk Museum of Art....

April 26, 2013 - This post is a reply to a very well written response to my earlier blog post, "Who Is An Artist?" My friend Cedric says...

April 15, 2013 - For as long as there has been Art, there likely has been debates about what it is, and isn't. Not as often debated is th...

March 27, 2013 - Navigating a life photographic, finding your way from first love to a life-long relationship of creativity is one of the...

March 18, 2013 - If we really think about it, every photograph we create is a self-portrait. Notice I use the word create. Every image in...

March 06, 2013 - It may be an old nut, the question of how "good", or how talented female artists are compared to their male counterparts...

February 20, 2013 - What is in your photographic kitchen? What herbs, seasonings and flavours do you most use? Like cooking, photography is...

February 18, 2013 - "If I were an artist... " how many times have I heard that from friends, and students and just folks in everyday convers...

January 28, 2013 - What is creativeLIVE? In short, it is a worldwide, on-line classroom for free while live, and during re-broadcasts, for...

October 29, 2012 - "Use filters and plug-ins!" "Don't use filters or plug-ins!" It seems everyone in the photography industry has an opinio...

October 26, 2012 - What inspires you? What encourages you? Do you know the difference? Words are important things, what they mean, and what...

October 22, 2012 - This time of season, many of us turn reflective and look back over the year, contemplating accomplishments and thinking...

October 11, 2012 - Do you enter your work in photography competitions? Do you answer " calls for entry " to prestigious venues and gallerie...

July 05, 2012 - Taking inspiration, and ripping out a page from the Peter Weir film "Dead Poets Society ", this is a follow up to my pre...

June 27, 2012 - Photography is an art that captures all of us at some time in our life. Whether we are six or sixty when it happens is n...

June 18, 2012 - Shell Study I Every once in a while, hopefully not too often, we creative folks find ourselves in a place of deep funk,...

May 31, 2012 - I recently created a small series of composited photographs, collectively called " The Bodhi Lands" that were originally...

May 25, 2012 - The Navigation Legend:: Polaroid SX-70 Film I've created a new, one-off series called Ten Polaroids to showcase work cr...

May 22, 2012 - Ever wonder what 10,000 hours really looks like? In terms of days, weeks, months, etc.? How about in terms of actual art...

February 17, 2012 - When I started exploring the fine art aspect of photography, and imagined my first solo show of photographs, I liked thi...