Yes, the swamp is beautiful!

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That was not immediately clear to me when I first moved to Louisiana. In fact, I was pretty leery of the swamp. It seemed oppressive, with strange smells and spikey plants and strangling vines and danger underfoot–such a contrast to the cathedral-like forests of the Pennsylvania ridges I left behind to move here. But I have never been one to cower indoors for too long, so gradually I ventured out and began to explore, and gradually I came to appreciate the beauties of the swamp. It thus makes me very happy that some of my images of the swamp have…

Mind of an Artist?

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The show this post is about is titled “The Mind of an Artist.” But that’s a little too boxed-in for me. So I took of “the” and added a question mark. Because what I submitted that did get invited into the show certainly might tell you something about at least one of my minds, but it’s far from “The Mind” of this artist! Yes, I’m quarreling over semantics, but as also a teacher of writing, my mantra has long been “Words have meanings; each and every one either works for you or against you.” The call for this particular show…

Well, darn!

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So, I came to Denver for an art show opening reception tonight, but here I am in my hotel room on my computer instead! It’s been snowing off and on ever since I arrived, and the opening reception has been postponed until tomorrow night. Sadly, I’ll be back home by then. Well…, that might take a bit of luck, but… that’s where I’m supposed to be tomorrow night! Nevertheless, it’s been a mostly good trip. Yesterday I enjoyed walking in the snow about three-quarters of a mile to D’art Gallery in the downtown arts district. It’s a co-op gallery and…

Small Work

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Holiday gift giving is just around the corner and the annual crop of “small works” shows has begun. Maybe this will be the year you try a small, affordable piece of art for a holiday gift? Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, California, is the first to have one of my pieces this year in their online “small works, BIG TALENT” show. The show opens November 7, so I don’t have a link yet. I’ll post it on the Facebook page when it comes, but you can also always just search for the gallery online. Seeing Eye to Eye happened…

Abstracting

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That’s what photography does: abstract. All photographs are abstract at the most basic level because they pull out and preserve a moment in time and space from the ongoingness and continuity of things. Whatever else photographers might be up to–journalism, art, documenting the family picnic, messing around, whatever–they are in the business of abstracting. But that’s only the beginning. Once that moment abstracted from time and space is on the photographer’s computer, the fun begins. Well, I have a lot of fun shooting. So, more accurately, the fun continues. In the case of Nevermore, I wanted the image to also…