by stevesherman | Feb 1, 2018 | Story Behind the Photograph, Uncategorized
February 22nd is your day…Happy 286th Birthday George ! My career in photography began unexpectedly in late 1981 when a friend brought me to a Connecticut Professional Photographers Association meeting as a guest. I soon joined the association where Gary Wnek and...
by stevesherman | Dec 31, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Weston Agave, Wildcat Hill, Carmel, CA 2010 Early in 2010, I began making loose plans for an extensive photography trip to areas of the Western landscape that dotted my photography bucket list. More than a dozen trips to the Southwest with my traveling partner,...
by stevesherman | Nov 29, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Several years ago my wife and I started visiting the New Hampshire White Mountains area with accomplished Large Format photographer Tim Jones and his wife Darlene. I have long considered them family and just recently learned Darlene and I are distant cousins so it...
by stevesherman | Oct 30, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
In October of 1996, I lead a workshop to various photographic locations within the Arizona Strip. One of those locations was Monument Valley, which is entirely within Navajo land and operated by the Navajo Nation. I had learned from previous workshops that one can...
by stevesherman | Sep 26, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
I made this image in 1987 very early in my understanding of B&W film and how to shape what I wanted to communicate in a photograph. This image is one of the first successful renderings of a scene where I was able to carry off what my mind saw and translate it to...
by stevesherman | Aug 29, 2017 | Story Behind the Photograph
Back in 2004 I thought I wanted to go to a larger camera, 8” x10” was the next step up from my 5” x7” Deardorff camera. I already had several lenses that would work the larger format, so before I actually purchased a camera I was fortunate to borrow one with the...
