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I had the first thoughts about "pre-visualizing" this image in the right-side of my brain, while scouting for a workshop last September. I checked my trusty star-chart and my compass, and became aware…

That day, long ago in the summer of 2001, promised to be unbearably hot. Dylan and I quietly entered Pueblo Bonito at dawn. No other visitors that morning. Who had been here over one thousand years ag…

We looked back through old images this past winter, and Margaret and I were both impresses by this old 4x5 capture of an Agave in clearing fog, from La Jolla, CA. As I have mentioned be…

We have been on a family trip to central Oregon, and have had the pleasure of traveling with our daughter, Sabrina this year. Our plan was to start near where we stopped last year and continue up th…

This is an older image from back in 1996. In those days I used a "viewing card," an old Ansel Adams technique. When setting up a 4x5 camera, one has to know exactly the composition. The camera ca…

As I have mentioned before, "It's only with the Heart that One can see Rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". I have spent years and years working on these images. Both of them present c…

This image was made long, long ago, way back in 1997. Dylan was eight, and I remember him chasing his baby sister, Sabrina, who was crawling everywhere inside the Mission. It was the he…

I can not believe that our Big Sur workshop was in March and that I am now making time to post about that wonderful sojourn. The winter of 2016-2017 has been tough in Mammoth. Endless shoveling, and t…