I’ve long appreciated how complex life is. One has only to consider the Monarch butterfly’s life—not just complex but impossibly so. Scientists have unravelled nearly all of that story but…
When on Kodiak Island several years ago with my dear friend and fellow photographer, we enjoyed some wilderness kayaking along the coast. That enjoyment quickly turned to desperation when we…
Diversity is a word that has been hijacked, especially with regard to our fellow human beings, and, worse, made to seem dirty—”if you are different from me, you are bad,…
I’ve been making photographs for sixty years. Mainly of what is termed the (non-human) natural world, like the flowers of the nearly extinct American Chestnut tree above where bees will…
I alluded in a post this week to the challenges of photographing snow. While some are easily met—like increasing exposure so the brights remain bright—others continue to be challenging; honestly…
Two of my goals in putting together this upcoming show at the Highland Center for the Arts, opening February 18th and running until March 17th, are to have viewers see…
As I prepare this solo show of some of my photographs of water, I’m continually reminded of the true wonders of the stuff! On the one hand it is “simply”…
Today I am celebrating our blue and green world—swirled in water! Each of us sees the world differently, some only slightly, others very differently. I have a good friend, as…
Why is it so easy to think about what has been or what might be and forget to just be here now?! Recently while waiting for friends, I had a…
One of the things I noticed about myself on my annual Fall foliage trip to Cady’s Falls this year was that I’m slowing down. Not all bad! More time to…
Still Learning To See 