The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…June 2021
I have been looking forward to sharing the Story Behind this month's image since I first learned of the area from a former co-worker. Gerardo, a talented artist in his own right posted the cell phone capture seen below that I grabbed from his FaceBook feed. I first saw the FaceBook post back on January 20th, the lure of the diagonals and receding triangles was simply too enticing to wait for warmer weather. Gerardo had shared with me great directions and I made the 10 minute walk to find...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…May 2021
Winter months are my favorite time of year to make meaningful photographs. Because of the extraordinary events of 2020, travel and safety precautions I was not able to take my annual trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire. A close friend and equally talented B&W photographer owns a beautiful home in Bethlehem backed up to a glorious view of Mt Washington. In fact, my wife and I owned an adjacent building lot for 4-5 years with an eye towards relocating in retirement years. We...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…April 2021
I love telling this particular story and it is especially appropriate to this month's Story Behind Every Photograph. During the scores of plane rides I've taken for landscape photography to the Southwest, I reread the book Art and Fear by Ted Orland and David Bayles. Both are working photographers/artists seeking to survive in the difficult world of "creatives." In the book, the authors share many experiences, the one that stands out the most to me is, a college professor of Art who gives...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…March, 2021
If you’ve never tried, then you’ll never fail, if you've never failed, you’ll never grow. No idea if anyone has ever written the opening line, nevertheless that is the genesis of this month’s Story Behind Every Photograph, didn’t figure it would be so soon with the brand new 5x12" Chamonix camera. I've always thought it would be interesting to write a back story about a failed photograph, at least from the perspective of the original idea and motivation to make the image. This...