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I've recently had the pleasure of speaking with the very talented Beth Buelow about my recent eBook, Future Hindsights. Among other topics, we spoke about such topics as experience, music, creativity, adventure, and planning. I hope you enjoy our conversation. If you are unable to vide the video below, you can also access it... Continue Reading →
The so-called “rules” of photographic composition are, in my opinion, invalid, irrelevant and immaterial—nothing but obscurations between the spirit and the revelation of the world of nature and of man . . . It is affirmed here that there are no rules of composition in photography; there are only good photographs! —Ansel Adams In a... Continue Reading →
To say yes to the world, to reproduce it, is simultaneously to re-create the world and oneself, to become the great artist, the creator. —Albert Camus Note 1: If you have not already done so, please take a moment to read and consider my Read This First page before proceeding to the essay below. The... Continue Reading →
I am amazed that some people can be so lacking in anxiety as to imagine that they have grasped the truth of their art on the first try. —Henri Matisse In his 1844 work, The Concept of Anxiety, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote, “anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” (In some translations, the word “dread”... Continue Reading →
Many thanks for those who joined us and for the excellent question! If you've missed our live session, you may watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OjJK7oXbUk I invite you to join fellow writer and photographer Colleen Miniuk and me for a FREE special live author talk on Thursday, June 18th at 5PM Mountain Time (7PM... Continue Reading →
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. —Albert Einstein All forms of language are by nature ambiguous. This is because languages... Continue Reading →
My new E-Book, Future Hindsights / Selected Writings on Photography and Experience, is now available for purchase! The E-Book is in PDF format and offered for a limited time at an introductory price of $17.95. ~~~ Future Hindsight is the idea (first introduced in my book, Another Day Not Wasted) of living and creating such that... Continue Reading →
Announcements: My new e-book, Future Hindsights, will be available for purchase from my website on Friday, May 15th. I will post an announcement and link on this blog when I release it. If you wish to receive the announcement and my regular blog articles via email, please subscribe here. If you wish to purchase autographed copies... Continue Reading →
What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a deep anguish, but whose lips are so fashioned that the moans and cries which pass over them are transformed into ravishing music. ... And men crowd about the poet and say to him, “Sing for us soon again”—which is as much as... Continue Reading →
Without music, life would be a mistake. —Friedrich Nietzsche Previous installments in this series: Amor Fati—Part I: Introduction Amor Fati—Part II: Vastness Amor Fati—Part III: Acceptance and Rebellion In his poem, The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry confessed, “When despair for the world grows in me […] I come into the peace of wild... Continue Reading →