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I would say that for many consumer photography types, even most, photography is a spark, not a flame. A spark is a fiery particle thrown off from a fire or consistently produced by striking two hard surfaces together, such as stone or metal. A spark comes and goes. It’s transitory. Here one minute, gone the…

I have always been a fan of Henri Cartier Bresson, a French humanist photographer, commonly considered the Father of modern Street and Candid photography. For me, what I seem to relate to more than the pictures he took, is the words he used to describe his craft. I read, I relate, I resonate. When you…

We can’t go back. We shouldn’t go back. We’ll never go back. Right or wrong, good or bad, agree with it or not, we are living in the very early stages of the new normal, a post-pandemic world of photography. I am feeling it so very deeply in my bones-less breadth, more depth. Emotional intelligence…

I’m, unashamedly, a hotel and resort kind of guy, as opposed to an Air BnB kind of guy. Enter Hotel Bennett I like the pampered service of hotel life: clean sheets, meticulous service, friendly and gracious staff and concierge support, world-class edibles, new friends, drinks, romance, WIFI, the list goes on. For those of you…

It’s a crying shame that many of you, even most of you, will never experience the spell working enchantment of spending a day with your camera doing intentional photography. It’s an absolutely glorious experience. I mean the whole day-sunrise to sunset. Just you, your camera  and the adulterated and welcomed company of light, color, and…

I am, unashamedly, and without excuse, a photographic purist. In other words, generally speaking, I want my photographs to look like….photographs, not illustrations. This is not at all a criticism or disapproval of fine-art apps or fine-art editing. Not in the least. It’s just how I roll. I think of my smartphone, less like a…

Almost as soon as I finished yesterday’s post about photography being easy and effortless, I was immediately reminded, that there is an inescapable flip-side to this narrative called…hard work. I know that especially here, in this space, most of you look at my photos with appreciating and admiring eyes and think to yourselves, “Of course…

I paid my dues to learn photography. I consider myself both self-taught and formally educated in the art and science of picture-taking and picture-making. Oddly, even sadly, for the better part of my photography career, I confused complication and complexity with value and worth. In other words, I falsely reasoned, that if the process or…