November 15, 2019
When learning something new, particularly, something we desire to become good at, at some point, we emulate. For the novice, emulation is often a natural response to inspiration, being moved by someone else’s mastery of the subject we’re in...
February 10, 2017
So far 2017 has been painful for me. I’ve never felt such concern and trepidation over a new administration. My birthday was January 19th, President Barack Obama’s last day in office. There was no celebration. January 20th, as Donald Trump ...
May 8, 2016
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown Sunset, Canyon Junction, Zion National Park. On any given weekend, Spring, Summer, or Fall, photographers gather before dusk on the bridge facing south t...
September 30, 2015
<a href="/images/craft/keyhole-canyon-large.jpg"></a> This is Keyhole Canyon, the photo taken from a sandstone ledge about 30 feet above the pine trees. The dark abyss is the slot canyon, a relatively short beginners-level slot popular with...
June 26, 2015
From the honorable Justice Anthony Kennedy: The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the exten...
April 5, 2015
A post to a Photography group on LinkedIn highlighted this enjoyable <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/hearing-and-feeling-what-photographers-are-saying/">NY Times article</a> on the career and philosphy of a master black an...
November 13, 2014
I'm not one for dipping into the Internet meme toolbox to make a point. But, occasionally, you read something that begs for it. The romance and nostalgia associated with film doesn't justify its continued use, even for the black and white p...
November 1, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/conflicting-topographies-large.jpg"></a>It's probably not surprising, when flying, I like the window seat. Flying, for me, is a little dose of transcendence. At 30,000 feet, perspective runs visually broad and contemp...
October 10, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/zion-garbage-large.jpg"></a>This morning, after a particularly productive photography session, I spent 20 minutes picking up trash strewn aside a pull out on the upper east side of Zion National Park. I assembled the ...
Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.