Today marks the completion of my 42nd journey around the sun and the start of my 43rd. Perhaps more than any previous January 21, I feel as if I’m optimistically standing on the verge of a turnaround. I feel this...
I have to confess to you — I’m an ambivalent photography lover. My love for color knows few bounds (unless we’re talking oversaturated images or horribly processed HDR). Color dazzles the eyes, prompts emotions, inspires. And yet, my heart splits...
Well writers, here we are, 2021. Yeah, we’re carrying over so much of what made 2020 awful. Nonetheless, the calendar change is a time of optimism. We begin anew. This will be the year we finish that manuscript, the year...
For more than four weeks, one of nature’s best playgrounds waited just a five minute walk from the front door. Beaches with tall, grassy dunes stretched toward oblivion to the north and south, while countless wooden walkways weathered by sun,...
Nine months into this pandemic, it’s time to take an honest look at what it has done to our creativity. Manuscript drafts remain untouched or half-heartedly tended to. Camera gear mostly collects dust while laying on the shelves. Pens sheathed....
Spray-and-pray. Anyone who’s held a camera has used this method of photography, usually when you first start out (and hopefully only then). Spray-and-pray refers to the fever pitch creative mania one deploys in the pursuit of a great image. An...
Before even the sun could rise, I knew I’d made a mistake every photographer regrets. I left my camera gear at home. My Canon body and a wide variety of lenses sat uselessly back at the beach house we rented....
