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My dear mom was the family picture-taker and album-maker. She worked hard at both. And was tireless in her efforts and enthusiasm for both. The family albums, so it seems, were never more than an arm’s length away. At least to my mom. I think, growing up, my mom probably enjoyed the albums more than…

I keep saying over and over, like a broken record, that the three biggest influencers in my photography are Light, Color, and Design. If you think about it, the only two organically raw materials that any photographer has to work with, are light and time. Click.   “Available light is any damn light that is…

It’s a good and glorious thing to be deeply passionate about something. For it’s that very passion that inspires and influences all else. Thankfully, for me, photography has always been my Raison d’être. I honestly can’t even begin to imagine what life would be like without photography. Perish the thought. The very sentiment makes me…

Show me what’s on your smartphone camera roll and I’ll tell you who you are and what you are all about, what you like, what you love, what you admire, what you appreciate, what you deem important, what you find funny, your colors, your music, your food, your clothing, your grooming habits, all the things.…

My life hasn’t been perfect. Not by a long shot. I have been defeated way more than I have succeeded, really. I’m not lying. Believe me. Yet, here I am, through all the curveballs, bumps and bruises, roadblocks, detours, distractions, false-starts… For all of it, the simultaneous moments of jubilation and dejection, I am, from…

I have made a career out of being an intentional photographer vs. a casual and occasional one. In other words, I have almost never waited for the images to come to me but, instead, have gone to the images. I think. I plan. I analyze. I schedule. My images tend to be more photographs than…

Who doesn’t love the song “Summer of 69”, by Bryan Adams? It was a rallying cry for an entire generation of wide-eyed youth, ready to change the world. In 1969, I was in the 9th grade, and just discovering my place in the world. It was not the best day of my life. Not by…

Design is a plan, a scheme, a blueprint, a depiction for creating something according to specific aesthetics. Design is a visual look and feel for how an object and subject looks and is interpreted to others. Design is what makes you feel like you do about anything you observe and look at. Design is the…

It’s funny how so many of us experience life. We live. We die. We have one foot in front of the other. No fanfare. No pizazz. No fuss, no muss. Quiet, steady, consistent, safe, predictable, and comfortable. We believe what we were taught to believe without much deviation or divergence. Life goes on. We eat…

I love red. I’ve always loved red. Right beside orange, it’s my favorite color. In photography speak, I tend to be a “warm” rather than a “cool” photographer. My photographs bias toward warm. I have always have a natural and organic attraction and affinity toward the warm, rather that the cool-part of the color spectrum.…

I haven’t always been so bleeding-heart and open-book. This is, more or less, a new side of me that I have discovered over the past handful of years, since being divorced and living alone. Funny thing about life. Life is good. Damn good. It is gratifyingly and triumphantly good. Good beyond measure. Not perfect, good.…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this penetrating quote from the great landscape photographer, given the fact that this year, since February 2011, I’m celebrating my own personal, 10-year milestone, of having shot over one million photos, on 10 different iPhone cameras, in over 50 countries of the world. If you are counting, that…