Be Prepared – The Story Behind The Photograph
Illumination XXVI, Jokulsarlon, Iceland, 2012 French microbiologist Louis Pasteur famously remarked, “Chance favors the prepared.” Just showing up doesn’t guarantee success. You can stack the deck in your favor by being prepared. To be prepared you have to find answers to a lot of questions...
2 Exhibits In 1 – Around The World & Process – Aug 3-4
Enjoy two inspiring exhibits by internationally acclaimed artist John Paul Caponigro – Around The World & Process. Around the world unveils new highlights from his recent international travels north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle with stops along the way in Iceland,...
11 Recent Landscape Drawings
(Drawn on the iPad with Adobe Ideas.) Here’s a collection of recent landscape sketches. Drawing does many things for me. Drawing helps me find, refine, and expand ideas. Because of drawing I’m never at a loss for visual ideas – and consequently I become more...
Leave Room For The Viewer – The Story Behind The Photograph
Condensation III, Rockland, Maine, 2001 One second it was there and the next it wasn’t and in a few seconds even the ripples it created were gone. It was there in this shot, but I took it out. What was it? I’ll leave that to...
Seek Feedback – The Story Behind The Image
Selva Obscura, Jefferson, Maine, 2002 I had no intention of making this image; I had left my ‘real’ medium format film camera home and brought a then new digital DSLR, a technology in its infancy at the time, to photograph a new puppy I was...
Try New Things – The Story Behind The Image
Illumination II, Sossusvlei, Namibia 2012 In 2010, during my third trip to one of the oldest desert’s in the world, Namibia’s Sossusvlei dune field, I enjoyed one of the most sublime hours of my life, from a helicopter. Moments of grace like this fill you with...
Take A Break
Antarctica V, 2005 In 2005 I made the voyage from Ushuaia Argentina to the Antarctic Peninsula to colead a photography workshop with five other instructors – Michael Reichmann, Stephen Johnson, Jeff Schewe, and Seth Resnick, along with 45 participants. It was tremendously stimulating to be...