exploring nature’s infinite connections
Ten years ago, a great disturbance in the force was felt when the 10,000-word Oxford Junior Dictionary eliminated the words acorn, fern, and other nature-related words to make room for words like blog and broadband. The publishers' rationale at the time was that it...
Imagine, if you will, when you are born, right on your birth certificate - you are given an account number, a revolving line of credit. But instead of a financial one, it is an ecological one. Let's assume it starts with a zero balance. Even though bringing you into...
Thoughts about individualism and community weave in and out of this Leaf Creature series. While their individual characteristics manifest from the physical isolation of the black backgrounds and unique shapes, they will always be connected functionally to the mother...
Working on this photograph today brought all sorts of thoughts into my head. First, it was - this was a cool place, I should go back there. Then I think - wait - I made this exposure 9 years ago, and am only getting to it now. Shouldn't I catch up with my backlog...
I have been at a bit of a loss of words or image inspiration of late. Loss of words I suppose is a poor way to put it, it is actually too many words and thoughts that take some effort to sort through and organize in any type of coherent manner. So much going on in the...
Recently, friend Howard Grill posted in his ongoing YouTube series of "3-minute photo thoughts" a question about doing any "serious photography" while on family vacations. I thought I would launch a post about my own thoughts on this subject because it has a few...
Last year, a new organization called "Nature First" was formed. It is a collection of incredibly passionate, caring, and dedicated nature photographers who want to spread the education of field ethics. We create more than 1.2 trillion digital photographs a year, going...
Questions. Thousands and thousands of questions. Ever since I can remember, this has been one constant in my life. Could this be why I was drawn to math and science? After all, a constant craving for answers cannot go completely...
It probably goes without saying that many photographs you see have a lot of thought and meaning behind them that most viewers will probably never know about. The viewer takes in the visual content in and interprets it through their own set of filters and...