Hipstamiticophilia – Ragnar Th Sigurdsson

While guiding me on my Iceland photography workshop, Ragnar Th Sigurdsson rediscovered iPhone photography. He got obsessed with the App Hipstamatic, which produces photographs with terrific lo-mo effects. He started seeing differently. In addition to making many images with higher end photography equipment, he produced...

Track Your Influences

Frequently, old ideas and feelings surface in the midst of our creative process. Tracking our own fixations and chains of association can be both revealing and rewarding. The paintings of Morris Graves made a big impression on me at an early age. Ever since, I...

Use Postcards As Props

I often like to use props to make photographs. One of my favorite props to use is images. Photographing other images, in many cases, photographing other photographs, adds layers of complexity and offers many poetic opportunities. Images ask you to look and to look in...

Make Your Own Postcards

For a time, I swore off making photographs that were like postcards. I was looking for something else then. I was looking for my own unique approach to making images. My thinking was that if I took a vow of abstinence from what I knew...

Use Postcards As Quick Surveys

One of the first things I do when I arrive at a new location is look at postcards made in the area. Postcards give me a quick survey of the highlights of the region and the classic visual approaches that many other photographers have used...

Sharpening Workflow

The vast majority of photographic images benefit from sharpening. Before you decide how and when to sharpen images, you need to decide why you’re sharpening them. The goal is to enhance detail rendition without producing distracting visual artifacts. You’ll find many conflicting philosophies and their...

New Image – Refraction LXXVII

I issue quantum editions of select images from my series Refraction; the viewer can choose how many and which versions they would like created for them. To date most of these editions offer variations in the number and position of the lights within them. In...

New Image – Refraction 56

My series Refraction has challenged the way I think in so many ways from the moment the first image appeared. The series is informed by modern physics and the nature of light. An observer influences what’s observed. The questions they ask and the way they...

New Image – Inhalation 29

I often find the same compositional strategies, patterns, subjects and themes resurface in our work. Sometimes the ideas from two different images merge into a new one. I pay close attention to these visual bridges as they help me understand the both the similarities and...

Arctic Ice Gone By 2020 ?

People in science, business, government, and military are all keeping their eye on the Arctic. The rapid changes the Arctic is experiencing is one of the reasons photographing the region has been so high on my priority list. Find out about my Greenland workshop /...