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Right here, on this feed, the other day, a dear friend of mine, told me, that the photo I posted, of my loft, in Austin, was so “on-brand”. I smiled back. Of course, she was right, the photo was “on-brand”, the brand called me. I don’t have an “off-brand”. At least I hope I don’t.…

As you age, beauty seems to mutate before your very eyes, in color, shape, form, texture, and mood. It happens in all of life-clothing, music, food, faith, family, furnishings, cinema, travel, and romance. For me, as a career photographer, most of all, this transfiguration process, happens in my photography, and the photographic process behind my…

So many of my own photographs, as would be the photographs of countless other smartphone photographers, might be more affectionately referred to as “Found Photography”? In this pure sense, I am taking, not making the photograph. This content, and these assets, exists in time and space. I am giving them new import, intention, implication. I…

Through circumstance and life experience, we find ourselves in relationships with healthy doses of commitment and obligation but unhealthy doses of love and romance. Sighhhh. I have good news. You can be in love, the kind of love you dream about and want, every day, wherever you are, and wherever you go, regardless of the…

-nod to Nancy Griffith- “It’s a hard life It’s a hard life It’s a very hard life It’s a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they’ll know” I don’t care who you are, how rich or poor you are, what your status…

It should be pretty obvious by now, from reading my posts, that this is a mantra of mine. It’s not just a phrase I say a lot but a phrase I live by, from the depths, every step, with all my might. It rolls off my tongue because it’s born out of my heart: The…

A few days back, I was having a conversation with a dear lady-friend of mine. She said, “Wait? What? You take photographs to experience them and not just record them?” I could see the look of puzzlement and wonder on her face. She, like many before her, was confused by my comments. I get it.…

Ever since putting the first camera in my hands back in 1975, in some shape or form, I always dreamed of being a photographer. The heartfelt goal and drive was not so much owning and operating a photographic business, as I successfully did, several times over, even in different parts of the world, but living…

Three Photographers Walk Into A Bar: consumer, prosumer, and expert. The conversation eventually gets around to photography. The consumer is not wooed and romanced by the craft of photography but by its content. In other words, through the eyes of a consumer, what a picture says (content) is way more important than how it was…

For the past couple of months, I’ve been in a heads-down, deeply focused, quiet stage and phase. It’s been great. I seem to be in my work and labor zone- firing on all cylinders. It feels right, normal, and comfortable. Got lots going on, of course. But, instead of processing everything out loud, often in…