Most of us don’t have a photographic memory! We envision things as we believe them to be. But when asked to come up with very specific detail relating to something we have seen, most of us would have trouble recalling with exact precision, what we saw. That isn’t to say that we would not recall some or many of the details but as far as insurance companies go, they want precision, when processing claims. This is where Practical Photography can...
I grew up in a small town that in the fall looks like a box of Crayola Crayons has exploded all over the trees. As a child growing up in the sixties, it was a place far removed from the horror of Vietnam and the daily protests we all came to see as Walter Cronkite brought us the evening news. It was a place were you could ride your bike to the corner store to get...
When I first began in the field of photography, there were many things that I learned because I tripped over the discovery of photographic techniques. I suppose not having a professor telling me what I should and shouldn’t do in those early days was a good thing. My creativity was not hammered. I didn’t lose my ability to see the possibilities. But there were also things I didn’t know to do. For example, creating collections. Unless I was shooting a...
Some of the most interesting photos can be found at the airport…I stopped shooting photos in the airport after 9/11…
Feb 2008
I have just made it through airport security and now I must re-assemble myself. Shoes, sweater, belt, driver’s license, I put that back in my wallet. Much to my surprise, I have neither been hassled nor told to “combine” my bags. Usually, it is a toss up as to whether some poorly trained TSA agent is going...
I am always looking for some extraordinary place to go to capture exotic images. My long time dream has been to photograph South Vietnam. I have wanted to go there for as long as I can remember. And yet, I find that some of my most interesting and even treasured photographs have been taken in places right around me. A while back a photographer friend of mine and I were trying to shoot an image a...