The Story Behind Every Photograph
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...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…July, 2024
This Story Behind Every Photograph is as much a "self-help" exercise as any I've ever shared. At this point for me film photography and all related equipment and execution has become so second nature I rarely have to actually think out the process. It has become a simple puzzle that is assembled in a very specific order all targeted at reducing friction and freeing up the creative thought process. So, jumped ahead from last month's Story Behind where I detailed the last shot I made with...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…June, 2024
Most times, at least with my imagery the center or interest is clear with the goal of creating viewer's interest. Circling back around to enjoy the subtle secondary parts of an image lead to the success of all visual art. Other times, the mystery of chaos can be the driving force to "see" deeper, surely this image is the latter. This single gnarly tree image is the result of a quadrant of trees that has long fascinated me to make an ultra wide-angle shot with my film camera laying on the...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…May, 2024
These two married photographers and business partners were some of the very first people I met during my first Connecticut Professional Photographers Association meeting in October of 1981. For whatever reason I seemed to gravitate to the movers and shakers, and they to me within the pro associations. The closest photography friends I have 45 years later came from that very first meeting! My own B&W mentor, Jack, one of only a handful of passion photographers I have traveled with for...