Notes from the Woods

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Adding image number 1297

Occasionally I tend to wander through my image archives and discover quite a few images actually that I haven't processed for the website. Just like a bird preening, perhaps there is a grain of sand I haven't plucked out yet. A friend jokingly said one day - "hey, you...

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Parallels on artistic endeavors

I have mentioned in the past that I have been learning acoustic guitar for about the past 2 years. While I know I have made progress, I can easily see I have such a long way to go to be a good player. It is both a driver of determination at times, as well as a source...

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Wondering about rocks

What is it about wet rocks on a beach that makes them so alluring? Is it because there are no two rocks the same? In some way, do they remind us of people - each with their own personalities, color, and character? Is it because its particular shape or color triggers...

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Compositionally friendly subjects

Something I was thinking about this weekend while I was out photographing was about how some subjects lend themselves to a greater variety of composition possibilities than others. Quite often you are access limited, or at the mercy of wildlife behavior in determining...

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The Process

About two years ago now, my wife gave me an acoustic guitar for an anniversary present, which started me into a whole new art form that I had very little knowledge about. I played around a little with music and a keyboard while in college, but never really put any...

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Creating a visual vocabulary

I believe one of the key growth factors in moving your photography forward is knowing what you like and what you don't like in an image. This may seem somewhat trivial, because you might say 'well, of course I know what I like or I don't!" However, saying you like an...

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Being free of style?

I have added a few more new images to the gallery lately and have been reflecting on some of them. Often photographers will discuss defining their own particular style. How they make an image uniquely theirs and recognizeable as such. Looking at some images in the...

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