The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…June, 2026
What it Looked Like...What I Saw Apologies for a 2 month gap in Stories Behind Every Photograph. My email account was hacked and the vendor who sends out these Blog emails took an inordinate amount of time to validate my recovery email to reset the account. The April Story Behind Every Photograph is below. While I have long believed things happen for a reason, I had never actually heard the term God Winks. A dear friend, Kathy P turned me onto the metaphor which goes to my belief that...
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...