Tag: "inspiration"

What I Do

What I Do

October 4, 2011 | Comments (26)

It’s raining this morning. As the sun slowly rises I can see the bright yellow aspen groves on the flanks of Thousand Lake Mountain from my window. Soon the first light of the day will touch the crest of the red cliffs, then slowly make its way down in a beautiful display that had by [...]

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Interview with Marc Adamus

Interview with Marc Adamus

July 21, 2011 | Comments (26)

Continuing my series of interviews with creative artists and photographers, I posed a few questions to my friend Marc Adamus. Before meeting Marc a couple of years ago, I remember being intensely curious. While his exquisite photography is recognized by many, I knew very little of the man behind the camera. Marc does not share [...]

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Bring Back the Romance

Bring Back the Romance

April 19, 2011 | Comments (45)

Photography in the digital age can be described in many ways. It is exciting, innovative, productive, and liberating. Still, one cannot ignore the undertones of dissatisfaction from traditionalists. Some will say they simply like film, others may be afraid to step out of their comfort zone and I suspect for some there’s also a certain [...]

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Teach Yourself Photography in 80 Years

Teach Yourself Photography in 80 Years

January 8, 2011 | Comments (40)

If you buy a camera you are a photographer; if you buy a flute, then you own a flute. –Bob Kolbrener The other day, while searching for books online, I noticed a few titles that grabbed my attention. These books are, I’m sure, familiar to many and proclaim to teach you photography in anywhere from [...]

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Desert Brush

Photograph The Experience

February 25, 2010 | Comments (10)

“Today, indeed, you can find urban white artists — people who could not reliably tell a coyote from a german shepherd at a hundred feet — casually incorporating the figure of Coyote the Trickster into their work. A premise common to all such efforts is that power can be borrowed across space and time. It [...]

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The Shoulders of Giants

The Shoulders of Giants

August 6, 2009 | Comments (12)

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. –Isaac Newton A fellow photographer recently asked if I felt threatened by the abundance of excellent images offered by amateurs and pros alike. The answer for me is simple – not only am I not threatened, I am in [...]

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