...just when I thought everyone (that is the few that read my blog) were tired of hearing me go on about my series, Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I find that I do have one reader, Paul Butzi (blog: Musing on Photography) who gave me a very nice review and a hint to carry on. On the... Continue Reading →
Santa Rosa Plateau revisited
Worm Holes ...Well, I did get up at O-dark early and head out to the Santa Rosa Plateau this morning, and I had to drive through some very dense fog to get there. And I had some fun, this image being one of the more interesting ones. Now I have a small collection of these... Continue Reading →
Santa Rosa Plateau
...As a business person, I have always believed that networking was good. You can never can tell what can come from a contact and a friendly conversation. So I have carried networking over to my artistic development, that if a person expresses an interest in my images, I take the time to discuss what is I... Continue Reading →
Serial series
....seems that one project series is the food for thought that can generate ideas for another series. So now I am now considering another series that resulted from a current series. Am I clear??? Okay, here is what has recently happened: First, I found that static landscape images are not working for me as much any more. ... Continue Reading →
Irvine Fine Arts Center reception
Tired Bones ...Last night I attended the artist reception at the Irvine Fine Arts Center for our group exhibit, nice show and good turnout, including my local family & friends. I had a taped interviewed for the City of Irvine public tv, which was totally unexpected. Most of the awards went to very large color contempary landscape images, except Ellen, a... Continue Reading →
Art Business 101 – Introduction
...I had recently commented on a blog about the business of art and it was written as a satire. After talking to a bunch of other artist, I may have not been too far off the mark. Artist learn to create art, not how to market and sell it. After a couple of requests, I... Continue Reading →
Planned Haphazardness
...One of the good things that occurs while I have a heavy client load and doing a lot of driving, etc., is the opportunity to be reflective about the issues I am facing in life as well as thoughts about my photographic process. I wrote about creativity recently and I have been in a couple of... Continue Reading →
Quasi-Awareness
...Last week I was working my way through the changes to my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, eliminating the diffussion filtering and slowly updating all of my back ups, etc. Also a heavy travel week for my client projects, but as so happens, one door opens to another. I take a local toll road for... Continue Reading →
Nikon 8000L film Scanner
West Clear Creek ..a quick user review of the Nikon 8000L film scanner that I have been using for the last four to five years for my medium format negatives. As a result of a number of questions about how I get my images on the computer when I use a medium format camera with film, I... Continue Reading →
Creativity
...from Octave of Prayer, Minor White wrote "Intensified concentration is common to all creative people...philosphers name this concentration Creativity; the devout call it Meditation". This book by White has been sitting idle in my bookshelf for some time and I recently pulled it out while looking for something. If I recall, I bought this book because I... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 