Sometimes I wonder what is the result of this personal pondering. I want to simplify and understand what I naturally do in my life and in my photography. How can I share what I have practiced for so long and make it addressable to those friends I teach and others I encounter?
Lately I have [...]
So here I am again, back to looking and musing with these images that have chosen my attention. Today, I’m focused on Ierusalems Hou church in Halawa Valley, at the east end of Molokai. I’m chewing on how I photograph the same subject in different ways. One of the notions that Dewitt and I discuss [...]
Today, I photographed great friend, Flint in the Hui pool. Actually, I was really interested in his new tattoo that took months to do. This image is so personal to him and symbolizes his spiritual path and, in fact his life. The carp’s struggle through the rapids, tells of man’s quest for enlightenment and the [...]
Since the photo workshop, with the lawns cut, the electrical fixed, I have been scanning some of my old Kodachrome slides that are about 40 years old. For years I have been an advocate for the ‘the moment’ as the greatest gift in the process of seeing and connecting to the life around us. My [...]
Here we sit again on the porch, hopefully quenched, at least full from a week of wonderful sharing, encouraging and witnessing our photographic process. Like a gardener watching his plants, I feel this year will be a bumper crop ready to be harvested in each of your lives.
This week is about fertilizer – a [...]