The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…June 2018
My life in serious photography started quite by accident. It could be said there were signs in 1974 when I honeymooned in Bermuda and my brother suggested I take his 35mm camera along to record the occasion. As I remember I made about 200 slide exposures, less than a dozen with my new bride in the photograph. There was something brewing but nothing came of it until the early '80's. To this day there is a personal relationship of challenge and creating a visual being in every image I...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…May, 2018
I regularly travel to the SouthWest with my good friend and mentor Jack Holowitz. Back around 2000, we photographed some “Cap Rocks” outside of Page Arizona heading West on the right-hand side of Rt. 89 just before the Ranger Station leading into the Paria Canyon Wilderness. I always wanted to return to explore this area in more detail. In between 2000 and 2003 Jack had made a trip West with another group and came upon a truly incredible area of unnamed white erosion. That new found...
Power of Process Tip
A good friend who owns a cottage on the Connecticut coast hosted a weekend of large format photographers back in June of '17. As it happened there was a remarkably low tide on Sunday during the mid-morning harsh light. I thought I would love to come back here again when the low tide coincides with a sunrise. The low angle of the sun skipping across the patterns in the sand held the potential for a remarkable photograph. The owner of the cottage is a fine large format photographer...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…April 2018
I made this image in August of 2017 on a day trip to the Bethel Quarry in central Vermont. I had been here earlier in 2017 with Jack Holowitz and this time Peter Dylag joined both Jack and I. Peter is not only a fine large format photography but also has done all the video work for my Power of Process tutorial video series. It's unusual to return to a location once photographed where conditions are actually better the 2nd time around, that's exactly what happened this particular...