The following is a guest blog that I recently wrote for a fellow photographer, Joe Murray and his blog, The Visual Advocate. Thanks for the opportunity to write for you, Joe. When I was in college, art wasn’t my major, but I did photography in my free time and took some other art...
Category Archives: Thoughts
Working With a Limited Medium
“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle the artist wages with his limited medium.” – Henri Matisse Sometimes I really envy artists like painters and musicians their limited mediums. I used to play the violin, and with a violin, all you have are four strings and a bow. That’s...
It’s (video) storytime!
Would you consider yourself a prejudiced person? Racist? Hateful? Most people would probably say no to that, but is it possible to still be biased against people even if you don’t know it? Is it possible to hold wrong assumptions – even dangerous assumptions – about people even if you would never call yourself prejudiced?...
We All Go Through the Same Thing
Today I simply want to give you some words from a Master. There are many different types of photographers in the world, and we all have our own style. At least that’s the goal.
For Your Inspiration: Sketches of Frank Gehry
So, a lot of you probably already know who Frank Gehry is, even if you don’t know who Frank Gehry is. He’s the architect who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. And the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. And a whole host of other crazy amazing buildings. Well I just recently watched a...
Something I’ve wanted to do for a long time
Do you ever feel like there’s something you’re meant to do but you’re not doing it? Like there’s some piece of you that’s being neglected because you’re not using it? For me, there’s something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time, but it just never seemed practical. It’s something I even got jealous...
What Ansel Adams Showed Me About Myself
I’m interested in expressing something which is built up from within rather than extracted from without. – Ansel Adams I’ve just finished watching a PBS documentary on Ansel Adams, and I feel stirred in a profound way. I think that true inspiration comes to me when I see in something an echo of...
For Your Inspiration: BBC’s Genius of Photography series
I don’t know about you, but I get really excited when I find something that inspires me, and I want to share it with everyone I know. So I’ve decided to start a regular series on this blog dedicated to things that bring me inspiration and that I hope will inspire you too. Some of...
The Unseen collection is expanding!
I’ve been working on an ongoing fine art project that I call ‘Unseen,’ and I’ve recently added more images to the series, so I wanted to share them with you here. This work is about the relationship between what is seen and what is unseen (as the title just might suggest). In these images, I...
Unseen
There’s a central theme in my mind that drives much of my more artsy work: the unseen. I started an abstract project a few months ago based on this concept, and this is part two of that project. This is probably going to be something that I continue to develop, but I thought I’d bring...
