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...

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...

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...

The Tate Galleries define abstract as "art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality but instead uses...

"What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality." Ruth...

Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, May 2023 I may have mentioned that I am fascinated by surrealism, by the artists like Dali on the one...

I've become fascinated by collodion wet plate photography. My friend and mentor, Rebecca Pujals-Jones, invited me once for a day in the...

As I prepare for my artists residency at the Chateau d'Orquevaux, I've been trying out different post-production techniques for my...

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." Iris Murdoch This is a palm frond. I've...

Sally Mann has said that "part of the artists job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the...

Ansel Adams said, "there are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." And who decides what is a good photograph...