It was my first digital camera, it was the year 2000, it was an awful time, it was an incredible time. I thought I knew love. I thought I knew everything. I knew next to nothing. I had gone to art school. My work there was okay, but nothing mind-altering-ly…

FIND YOUR BEAR CUBS — Instagram, in front of our eyes, has Meta-morphosed. It has gone from a platform based on photography to a platform based on video. But the shift is much more then a bias toward one media format over another. It’s an entirely new way of using it that yields different results…

Don’t Keep Your Options Open — I’d done a lot of photography by 2015, but I had no idea whether I could make it as an actual photographer. At that point, I’d found myself well down a different path. Photography seemed like a fantasy life to me. I was in love with the medium and doing…

How understanding the way the mind perceives and organizes visual information can improve your compositions — Introduction to Gestalt Theory Gestalt is a psychological theory that focuses on how the human brain perceives and organizes visual information. It actually began as a deeper look into how our eyeballs communicate to our brains. The findings were transformational and changed our understanding of our perception of the world around us. From this…

3 Weeks On The Move in Qatar — This series is supported by Narrative Select. Narrative Select is a lightning-fast culling software that uses AI to help you quickly assess, cull and rate your images. I use Select on nearly every job I do, especially assignment work, like this one here in Qatar. And there’s a free…

On Assignment, Qatar, Pt 5. — This series is supported by Narrative Select. Narrative Select is a lightning-fast culling software that uses AI to help you quickly assess, cull and rate your images. I use Select on nearly every job I do, especially assignment work, like this one here in Qatar. And there’s a free…

On Assignment: Qatar. Part 4. — This series is supported by Narrative Select. Narrative Select is a lightning-fast culling software that uses AI to help you quickly assess, cull and rate your images. I use Select on nearly every job I do, especially assignment work, like this one here in Qatar. And there’s a free…

On Assignment, Qatar. Part 3. — This series is supported by Narrative Select. Narrative Select is a lightning-fast culling software that uses AI to help you quickly assess, cull and rate your images. I use Select on nearly every job I do, especially assignment work, like this one here in Qatar. And there’s a free…

On Assignment: Qatar Part 2 — This is a long trip. 20 days, more or less, with travel. It’s a long time to be away, from family, from normal life. I’ve done this a number of times in my life and each one feels the same and different. Enough of it to feel less work anxiety…