A Photographic Sage

   If there is a recurring theme on this blog, it is finding beauty in the commonplace.  After my post of November 29, 2014 I felt the ne...

   I saw this quote recently and it really seemed to express what I've always felt about the black and white photograph.  It also rem...

   I'm reading a wonderful book on labyrinths right now, Walking a Sacred Path by Dr. Lauren Artress.  In it she talks about recepti...

Another day...another squirrel!    In yesterday's post I talked about the power of photography to remember, even long after we forg...

The Divine Spark    I am a firm believer in the idea that we will see what we need to see because we are drawn to places and images t...

What you seek is also seeking you. ...you are able to embrace the metaphoric capability of the living landscape. ...you practice hei...

   As photographers, we have a huge range of filters at our disposal to alter the acquired image.   Diffusion filters, neutral density filt...

   On my stay on Monhegan Island I shared the cottage with 6 other photographers.  We all had our own interests and unique point of view....

   Each of us brings our unique perspective to everything we see and do.  I was reminded of that recently when I joined two dear friends fo...

Never put your subject in the middle of the frame. Most people reason deductively much of the time and most photographers see that way...

We should remember that loneliness is the pain of being alone,  yet solitude is the splendor of being alone, and that to have long-last...

   I've spoken at great length about the semantic implications of words associated with the photographic process.  This is important be...

   T here is a process in photography that is very often not covered in the "How T o..." books.  It is the The Epiphany proc...

Shadow Study - New Mexico Both light and shadow are the dance of love. -Rumi  If light is the supreme metaphor for the cont...

   What does it mean to nurture a "contemplative eye"?  As a photography major in the mid-1970's, the term "photographic...

Click here to purchase...    I am a great fan of Christine Valters Paintner whose website  Abbey of the Arts is listed among my on-...

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau Behold...A Blanket of Yellow Covers the...

   A lodestone is a phenomenon of  nature.  A rock that has a natural magnetism.  The word has also come to mean something in our lives t...

   I written a lot about my idea of Visual Listening ...a technique I use before I begin making photographs on location.   It is a form o...

   "To see and know a place is a contemplative act.  It means emptying our minds and letting what is there in all its multiplici...