“No one likes my photos.” Sharing our images with an audience isn’t always easy. It can be heartbreaking, bruise our egos and can make us feel like giving up. After a recent discussion about putting our images out there for the world to see, it led me to make these…

“IN-FOCUS: The Stories of IMS Photo” was an exhibit at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum (IMS). I was lucky enough to be able to attend the member preview event thanks to my brother, who is a member of the museum. The exhibition at Indianapolis Motorspeedway Museum (June 2022) The official exhibit description from the museum’s website: “IN-FOCUS: The…

Doing something different isn’t always easy. Sometimes, I think we too easily give up on our ideas that may be different. Or we give up on taking the camera out because the weather isn’t ideal. How about we stop doing these things? How about we just keep going, working on…

If you feel like you haven’t seen many articles from me, you’d be correct. I’ve finally decided to focus on a personal photography project. To be honest, this has been in my head for about four years. Many of you are likely similar to me in the fact that you…

As I’m working on a completely different series of images for a project, I came across this chair underwater photo from Cannes, France. While uploading it to a commercial site, it reminded me of “The Chair” image I created while in Chicago a few years ago. …

They come in all forms. In the last couple of days the words Noticing & Seeing have popped up several times. The funny thing is, in the presentation I gave last week about Seeing the world around you, I incorporate this quote: “Everybody sees, I have trained myself to notice…

The Yerkes Observatory is credited as the place where the study of astrophysics began. George Ellery Hale, one of the pioneers of astrophysics, was the leader in the planning and constructing of the 40-inch refracting telescope there. Sometimes, travel is local, or fairly close to home. Yerkes Observatory in Williams…

Moving on from the messiness of life and business or trying to be a business or not really wanting to be a business but feeling like that is what you are ‘supposed’ to do… Yes, moving on from that. Because it’s what we do, it’s what I do. Move on. …

Being productive in our own homes and offices isn’t always ideal. Add to that almost three years of working from home anyway, and it may just be a good idea to get out of the house to get some work done. Distractions at home One way to not get any work done is…