Great evening, alone in front of the Grove. So much to be thankful and hopeful for in this upcoming year.
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 [...]
Years ago, when I received my first NGS assignment to photograph Molokai, I remember Bob Gilka (then director of photography) telling me, “this will probably be your most difficult assignment, as you will be working in your backyard.” He said this because,” so much for you has become so familiar that it is hard to [...]
Years ago , during my first NGS assignment covering my island home, Molokai, my friend Paul Chesley came out to stay with me. He had just finished photographing a book on the Continental Divide for NGS. Paul was the person who gave me the encouragement to propose this story on Molokai. As I was covering [...]
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 [...]
With the photography class over and my final day with Jonathan coming to a close, I can feel the pace of my life about to slow down. So much has transpired in the last two weeks: a new computer system and time capsule hard drive backup, reorganizing and updating all of my systems inside, also [...]
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 [...]