What is my photography worth?

While writing my article on this year’s eclipse, I got to thinking about the real value of any given photograph. To start this conversation, I decided to define what kinds of photographs there are from my perspective. Snapshots: Images that you take on your vacation, or in my case day to day images I take of the things around me. […]

The 2017 eclipse

August 21 this year brought a total solar eclipse to a large part of the United States. Where I live near Denver Colorado, we were expecting 92% coverage of the sun. Just a few hours away in Wyoming was the path of totality. I set my sights on going to photograph this once in a lifetime event. As the weeks […]

Abstraction basics and workflow

Many consider abstraction as the holy grail of creative photography. I love to embrace abstraction in much of my work, especially in my Landscapes of the Body project. There are as many ways to add abstraction into your work as there are subjects to shoot. My preferred way to going about creating an abstract image is to remove recognizable landmarks […]

Angle of incidence

Whether you shoot portraits, landscapes or product photography, a basic understanding of the Angle of incidence and the law of reflection can help you figure out how to solve many different kinds of lighting problems in your photography. Now, I’m not a physicist, I approach my understanding of topics here on my blog from a photographer’s point of view, and […]

Sharing a skill: Cyanotypes

I was recently asked to volunteer some of my time for a very worthy cause. May 19, 20 and 21 marked the first ever Heather’s Camp to be held in Estes park Co. https://www.heatherscamp.org/  from their website: Heather’s Camp honors the memory of Heather Suzanne Francis Muller, her love of children and her desire to help those with special needs. […]

One of the toughest things I have done…

Back in February this year, I was focused on promoting the debut of my Landscapes of the Body exhibition at the VSA gallery here in Denver. I did interviews for local, national and international publications and TV, and in all of these spoke about my profound vision loss and the story behind picking up the camera and using it as […]

Set yourself apart

A few years ago I attended a seminar with the incredibly popular wedding photographer David Ziser http://ziser.com/ – the one thing that I took away from that talk was that photography is a very congested field and you must find that one thing that will set your work apart from everyone else. This is very true for any creative field, […]

To Photoshop or not to Photoshop

This is an easy question to answer… The answer is: yes, but…. We have all been there, you take a picture of someone or something and inevitably during the editing process the question arises as to whether something should be removed from your photo. I struggled with this quite a bit when I first got into photography. Open the pages […]

New camera = better images?

Got that awesome Canon Rebel a few years ago for Christmas from Costco? Have you been taking snapshots of family gatherings and need better quality images? Do you want to own a camera good enough to take award winning landscapes? Do you lust after that new wide angle lens because that is the key to taking your photography to the […]

Exhibiting work

I recently exhibited my six-year-long project called Landscapes of the Body in Denver. For years, my wife Carrie helped me with the project in all aspects. She worked with me in the actual taking of the photos (positioning lights and models etc.), helped me with printing, matting and preparation for the hanging. It is easy to say that this project […]

Photo Challenge – 25 shots

One of my favorite ongoing challenges is to find a mundane object like a park bench and take 25 good images with that subject as the dominant object or focus of your image. My version of this challenge is a bit tougher than most. I like to call a challenge done when I have 25 finished images of the subject. […]

When is a portrait not a portrait?

Webster’s definition of a portrait picture is: “a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face” Do a Google search of portrait and you will see well over a million images which show a head-and-shoulders or headshot image depicting a person’s face. The portrait is an iconic style of photography, people spend their entire professional lives shooting nothing but […]

Ideas to keep your photography fresh

Like any art form, photography can get stale sometimes, and it can be difficult to get inspired for a new project. Let’s talk about some easy ideas that you can try to keep things fresh and keep those creative juices flowing, who knows you might find that next new big project you want to do! The key with these ideas […]

The dark art of printing

I thought I would take today’s post and discuss another aspect I had to contend with to bring my project Landscapes of the Body to it’s present state.  Today will focus on how I choose the right paper for a project, and my process to get a final print. I personally believe that you can be proficient at getting a […]

Upcoming Show

A project I have been working on for years is about to make it’s debut. On February 17th 2017, my Landscapes of the Body project will be shown at VSA Gallery in the Santa Fe Art District in Denver. This is a show not a sale, the images will be on display through the end of March 2017 in celebration […]