Condensation – How Looking Inward Illuminates The Outside

Enjoy the text from my book Condensation. . Condensation . Light . All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are more about spaces they represent than the objects within...

Correspondence – How Feeling Connected Makes Better Images

Enjoy the text from my book Correspondence. . Correspondence The first thing I do when I walk outside is look up. The next thing I do is scan the horizon. Hopefully, there’s water nearby; no matter how active or still it is, I’m mesmerized by...

Reflection – What Still Inspires Me After 10 Years

Enjoy the text from my book Reflection. . Reflection . Cloudwatching What child hasn’t spent scattered minutes, accumulated into hours or even days, watching slowly unfolding clouds and the changing sky? Wondering what they were, are, and will be. Imagining bodies (either whole or in...

Celebrate 40 Years of Earth Day By Taking Action

What can you do to safeguard our children’s future? Here are three things. Install low energy light bulbs and turn them out when you’re not using them. Sign the Earth Day petition for a comprehensive US climate bill. Join the Climate Rally in Washington DC...

Budh

“I didn’t know it then, but it was the beginning of a whole new series. I knew it after it began happening repeatedly. The process had led me to a new point of departure. The work was a surprise. I hadn’t planned on doing it....

Nocturne IV

I’ve always been fascinated by photographs of the night sky. Telescopes are able to bring back details I could never have seen with the naked eye. Film exaggerates the colors of the stars, which are faint to the human eye. The lens often eliminates the...

Solo

” … The change from one moment to another was dramatic. Bright sun. Shadow. And, to my surprise, there was a beautiful quality of diffuse light when the sun was struck by the edges of each cloud. Some clouds were thicker than others. Every moment...

HOME – The Movie

On June 5, 2009, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s powerful new movie was released. A non-commercial venture this movie is free to everyone with an internet connection. It breaks the mold. The message is timely, succinct, and powerful. The opening lines say it all. “Listen to me. Please....

Oriens I

“Oriens represents a new line of inquiry for me. Take the most compelling passages of changing light throughout an extended duration of time and weave them into a single composition … Neither method, resynchronization or recontextualization, yields a classically objective document. But the results of...

Balog's Extreme Ice Survey at Iceland's Glacial Lagoon

Jim Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey breaks new ground photographically. I visited one of the locations featured in this video recently, Jokullsarlon – Iceland’s glacial lagoon, where I saw changes, and heard of even bigger changes from people who have lived there a lifetime and studied...