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New York Town

I caught the subway and went downtown. Helvetica lettering pointed the way. Passenger cars rocked, rattled, and clanked in the dark, and a platform musician sang Country Roads. People smiled on the boat to the Statue of Liberty, and Manhattan’s mountains rose above the harbor, where I later walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, picturing it as I would in a dry, dusty town.

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The Bigger Picture

There are many things to learn. The point of the arts isn’t to make a living doing art. Instead, if done well, we’ll witness the lived reality of the person making something become more widely known.

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In our lifetime

We’re only our age for a little while, yet the present is eternal.

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Sunset Limited

With a ticket, backpack, and several rolls of Kodak Gold, I watched Amtrak’s Sunset Limited coast to a stop at Alpine, 2 PM, would reach Los Angeles at 9 AM, December 2005.

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The problem with mirrorless

Someday we’ll call it a camera with interchangeable lenses.

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35 is a lonesome focal length

A 35mm pushes backgrounds away and magnifies foregrounds.

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Completely covered with graffiti

Old age is the ultimate new cool. Be a little bit of kindness and friendship walking around in the world.

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Heaven

Heaven is out here, working in Odessa.

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Wildly kind and kindly wild

How do we remember a place?

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Burgers, Fries, and Onion Rings

To see a photograph, we must forget that we’re viewing one. To see photography, we must acknowledge mood and atmosphere.

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Studio

A note is a few words in a sentence or two; a picture is an individual frame, and a finding blends text with imagery.

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Influence

Despair is progress misinterpreted. Focus on what you enjoy more than the attention it brings. Make a stranger laugh.

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The Rule of Thirds

View something, then around and past it.

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Education

The kids are smart and will do just fine. It’s grown soreheads like me who I worry about.

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Simple Italianate

Simple Italianate houses fascinate me. The City of Cincinnati describes Italianates (1860 - 1890) as two or three stories high, rectangular in plan, with low-pitched roofs. They are brick with metal, stone, or wood ornamentation. A distinctive feature is a cornice. Their design is thin with tall windows, similar to 19th-century commercial buildings.

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Welcome

Navasota, Texas

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Brazos River

Allenfarm, Texas

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Compression and Separation

Lens selection is a creative choice made before stepping outside. A 50mm is how a photographer sees; a 35mm is how one thinks, and a 135mm is how one sees and thinks while driving.

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Railroad Street

Navasota, Texas

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How it all began

If it hand’t been for West Texas, I probably wouldn’t have done monovchromramatic photography. If it hand’t been for school, I probably wouldn’t have done monovchromramatic photography. If it hadn’t been for the 1990s, I probably wouldn’t have done monovchromramatic photography.