I give a lot of thought to why I take the pictures I take, and the only consistent answer I come up with is that something catches my...

The cart and the horse, harnessed as he is to ensure only the person with the reins is in control of his movements, stand ready. As you...

Yes, friends, I am still here! I've been thinking about this one for awhile and am just now finding the space and time to put it to...

Much was changing in the village of Antonchico as it entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century. By then, the town boasted of...

The word "tradition" literally means to hand over for safekeeping. I always thought of my grandmother as the keeper of the traditions,...

Two people gaze at a photograph--an open door to an empty room, a pair of shoes under the corner of an iron bedstead, a stack of...

If the first thing that comes to mind when you see Fantastic Beasts is the film series spin-off prequel of the Harry Potter novels and...

Let me be honest upfront--this is not a new photo. In fact, if you go back through my blogs you'll see this same guy pop up in 2020. It...

Book two of my animal portrait book project. According to Merriam-Webster, an animal is any of a kingdom of living things including...

My grandson's first birthday is coming up, and I thought, there isn't anything that children like more than animals and bright colors....

There is a mission church at the edge of the village, on the road to the main highway almost dead center between Vaughn and Santa Rosa....

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh

"Every moment is a window on all time." Thomas Wolfe As I prepare for my next artist in residence experience, I can't help but put it...

When I was notified that I'd been selected to attend the International Artists & Writers Residency in Orquevaux, France, my first thought...

by Kelley Lannigan Inspired by my photo presented as "Conversations With Myself" and shown at the Becoming: The Feminist Image exhibition...

The building stands alone now, surrounded by a barbed wire fence from which even the laziest of sheep could escape. Beyond it the pasture...

Tim Carpenter says, in his essay "To Photograph is to Learn How to Die, that intervention of the sort described by Flannery O'Connor as...

"The camera is in some ways a sketchbook drawn in time and space, and it is also an admirable instrument that seizes life just as it...

I don't believe in coincidence. A month ago I started an on-line workshop called Photography to Get to Know Yourself. I thought this...

My next assignment for the workshop, Photography to Get to Know Yourself, is called Inventory. Using photography, we're to inventory...