The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…November, 2024
Manhattan Skyline, 9/11/2024 Following up on last month's Story Behind further reinforces, "the" decision. My transition from B&W film to a digital capture medium was not as seamless as seen with this month's opening image. A 6 week cross country trip with my wife this past summer would confirm my new direction. New and exciting opportunities lie ahead, but not before what I'd hope would be an epic final large format film image. Many know I am a huge Springsteen fan, certainly for...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…October, 2024
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone This image came from Yellowstone National Park this past summer. The image may-not jump out illustrating the power and magnificence of YNP. However, what's most rewarding to me, it's not the can't miss hero image everyone makes from the iconic Lower Falls of YNP. This image is about 90 degrees to the right of the hero image where scores of people were making, and I myself made of my wife and traveling partner as seen in this color photo taken only...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…September, 2024
The September Story Behind Every Photograph over the years has been devoted to imagery I've created in remembrance of the tragedy that rocked our country on September 11th, 2001. This month's image came about last December 22nd when I left CT @ 3:30 am for a photography scouting trip to NYC prior to picking up my eldest son and family coming in from Texas for the Christmas holiday. There were multiple stories worthy of a Blog that came out of that one morning...this is one. Most times...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…August, 2024
Cainville Triangles My wife and I just returned from a 41 day, 9400 mile trip across the country to Yellowstone & Glacier National Parks, up into Canada and then down to Utah (by far my favorite state for photography.) A terrific by-product of driving long hours is your mind drifts to the creative mode, detailed in the book, The Net and the Butterfly. The book changed my approach to making visual imagery offering a clear understanding of how the creative process can be activated. In...