Photography’s Unspoken Dialogue — A friend sent me a page from a book she was reading. It was Michael Sakamoto’s “An Empty Room” (2022), which describes the author’s experience and understanding of Butoh dance — an avante-garde form of performance art, originating in Japan in the late 1950’s. It has become quite a phenomenon…

Using Handles to Create Better Ideas — Handles are the undiscussed, maybe even gate-kept, tool that creative teams use at bigger ad agencies. It was a specialty of mine for over twenty years and I wrote them for some of the biggest campaign concepts in the country: Volkswagen, Dr Pepper, Playstation, Coors, Fisher-Price and many others. I’m…

June 20th, 2019, I found myself in a town car being whisked off to Henry Pool & Co on London’s Saville Row to get fitted for a suit. “What’s the event?” I was asked. “A dinner party with Prince Charles,” I responded, not entirely sure if that was the right…

Born Digital. You’ve heard the term. People who never knew a life where there weren’t computers, cell phones, video games, streaming music and shows, email, electric cars, drones or selfie sticks. You know, Gen-Z, and everyone after. Me, I was not born digital. I was born bored, invisible and human…

I just returned from summer travels. We hit London, Southern Italy and Hungary. If you’ve followed along with me over the years, you know that travel photography is a big part of what I love to do — not for…

There’s just something kind of heartless about A.I., have you noticed? The engines get more advanced, the renders get more dynamic, but the feeling — it just kind of stays the same. Another beautiful render to forget about in 15 seconds. It’s all too interesting. Or trying to be. The…

A Short Story by Josh S. Rose, 2023 — The frequency of falling leaves had grown through winter and on into spring. Normally, Grady swept on Sundays. Sundays were slow days, with little much to do aside from chores. As a child, like all children, Grady hated chores. But as an adult, chores brought with them a certain peacefulness…

Most scenarios in photography aren’t so severe that noise is really a horrendous issue. For the most part, we hover somewhere under 2,000 ISO and the noise is mostly only noticeable to those of us who are looking for it. Most casual observers of a photo shot at even 3,000…

Prologue When I was a kid, stories came to me constantly. While other kids sat chewing their pencils, I was furiously scribbling out ideas — characters, names, dialogue, scenarios — I had a well that never ran dry. I don’t know where it came from. There are similarities between the disciplines…