The Story Behind Every Photograph

The Story Behind Every Photograph…March, 2026

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

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

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

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...

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