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Life is full to the brim of markers and milestones that develop, describe, and define each of us. With every breath, every step, every twist, and turn, along the journey, we leave our mark, on life and planet earth. We are, in fact, and without question, the sum total of our experiences-good, bad and ugly.…

Many photographers, consumers, prosumers and experts, newbies and veterans, old-school and new-school, want their photographs to look like illustrations. This group tends to love exaggerated effects, highly processed photography, composites, and is often, admirably, more conceptual in nature, in their approach to image taking and making. Good for them! Different paths to the same destination.…

Every single day of your life, if you let it be if you own it and celebrate it as such, is a beautiful day. We flirt with the concept of beauty, as all human beings have, since the beginning of time. Beauty has the innate power to spawn and spin inspiration, aspiration, exultation, passion. Today,…

This notion tends to surprise, even shock, non-photographer, and photographer-newbie types, but it’s so very true-photography, at least the kind I’m talking about here, happens long before you put a camera in your hands and click the shutter. If this wasn’t the case, think about it, photography could be bought by purchase, not learned by…

I spend a lot of time, energy, and focus on my interiority. It’s important to me. It’s how I’m wired. I’ve come to honor and accept it. My interiority occupies more head and heart space than my exteriority. Part of this is my classic, born-with, Type-A personality-outgoing, driven, motivated, ambitious, rigidly organized, status-conscious, competitive, impatient,…

“I’m sorry, do I know you?”, I said, openly and curiously, “No, I don’t think so”, she said back. “But we have exchanged glances and smiles a few times, on the trail, and I was wondering, what your story is?” “My Story? Let me see, it depends on which day of the week you ask”,…