The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…March, 2026
Winter is my favorite time of year to make imagery, researching locations for the winter of 2026 I came across an image I made back in 2022. Back in 2021 I had entered a lottery to be a "volunteer" to bottle bourbon at the Garrison Brothers distillery in Hye, TX. I could write an entire Story Behind just on that experience alone, however, the Photo Arts Xchange is happening in just about 5 weeks and my time is more focused on printing new imagery to share during that April 10 & 11th...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…February, 2026
A trip to Ireland with 5 unlikely high school classmates was in the planning stages for nearly two years. Photography is never far from my heart, over time those 4 classmates would silently take their own place in my heart. So, the Ireland adventure would become a balancing act to not let my passion for photography cloud this new found bond, with respect to the photography, quite the opposite happened...a Story for another time ! I researched many AirBnB locations in northern Ireland,...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…January, 2026
Happy New Year, wishing One and All a Healthy and Prosperous 2026 Occasionally since around 2015 I'd begun to think of myself as a "Film Snob"...my phrase, but rooted in my belief Film and Wet Processed prints were the gold standard. After 40+ years a B&W film photographer I've taught advanced film processing to photographers visiting my darkroom from Canada, Europe and South America. My videos call home on 5 of 7 continents worldwide and a tenured college photography professor of...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…December, 2025
Monument Valley Lightning Strike As 2023 rolled over into 2024 I began to stare down the reality that I would completely transitioned to digital capture. A 6 week trip was planned with my youngest son and his family to the Southwest for June of 2024. VicMom and I would spend the first 4 weeks in Yellowstone NP, up thru Montana and into Canada. At this point I had Sony's most powerful mega pixel camera and I would borrow a 5x7...