This week I had a breakthrough in how I present my Photo Prayers, making the words all caps and making the words different sizes so they fit into a tight rectangle. Posters from the wild west of the 1800s commonly used all caps lines side to side, as did the circus poster that inspired John […]
Young Actors Workshop in Performance Backstage
Every year the Arden Shakespeare Gild hosts the Young Actors Workshop for children of all ages. Children are separated by age, and each age group learns to perform a scene from Shakespeare. I’d been meaning to shoot backstage for years. I have shot performances in years past, but from in front of the stage, where […]
Young Actors Workshop Rehearsals
Every year the Arden Shakespeare Gild hosts the Young Actors Workshop for children of all ages. These photos are of some of the rehearsals of February 1, 2014. Children are separated by age, and each age group learns to perform a scene from Shakespeare. Click here to see these images on Flickr. Once one that […]
Cropping, Editing, Pruning, Weeding
Photographers crop their photos. Writers edit their text. Gardeners prune and weed. What does God do? Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of my favorite photographers, hated cropping, yet most photographers crop their images to make them better. In the photo above, part of a house shows on the left and a telephone pole shows on the right. […]
Faux Folk
This is NOT a photo by William Christenberry. Neither is it a photo of authentic vernacular art. In that sense it is doubly false. Or is it? This gnome’s house is some artist’s creation in the style of a folk artist. The photo is my creation somewhat in the style of William Christenberry. “In the […]
Elemental Recreation
The utopian village of Arden, Delaware celebrates July 4th with competitive races such as the slow bicycle race. Then, after watermelon and refreshments, the fire hydrant at the corner of the Arden Green is opened for about fifteen minutes. The spraying water gives these photos a pointellist feel. The people twisting and turning in the […]
Paris Street Life
An exhibit of French photography at the Delaware Art Museum prompted me to post a slide show of my own work from a visit to Paris, France in 2007. Almost all my photos are Shoot-First-And-Ask-Questions-Later images of life on the street and, occasionally, in the subway. Most were taken with me looking through the viewfinder, […]
Wonder’s Absence
I get so wrapped up in the tasks at hand that mystery and wonder often disappear from my experience. The character of that absence varies. Sometimes mystery and wonder feel far away, but usually they feel palpable, as near as my skin, likely to appear at any moment, in any circumstance. That said, mystery and […]
Mystery Delights Us
Wooden Chinese characters, graffiti, and one odd symbol on a sign in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not always, but often, I am delighted to find mystery, to come across any thing I do not understand. I am not sure why this is, but am grateful for the recurring experience. It certainly helped […]
Glorious Weeds
Meadow Buttercup and Ajuga: an alternative ground cover If my backyard is a meadow of wild flowers each spring, it is because I mow around the wild buttercups and ajuga that pop up and bloom. At first there were just a few plants in my back yard but, because I let them go to […]
What God Sees
I wrote a prayer to go with this photo of shadows. Here are some steps I took along the way. “You don’t judge us, good Lord, by the shape of our shadows, the images made of us, or what people say. You see us as we are. Your light reveals all and redeems every imperfection […]
Mountain Storm
THE PHOTO Storm on Mt. Baldy and Flat Top Mountain, Utah. THE PRAYER How I yearn to be there miles away and high above there in the storm sleet stinging my face lightning crackling and exploding me small against the peaks witness to Your majesty Click here to visit my Photo Prayer website.
Foggy Woods
Occasionally, not as often as I’d like, I take time to make photographs and share them with you. That’s what the photo prayer I sent out today is about. Robert Frost said it better in his poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Like Frost, I know whose woods these are. They are on […]
The Form of Writing
“The form of writing matters,” writes Christopher Calderhead. He says, “Humans are mark-making animals.” He does not say that making marks is what distinguishes us from other animals, or that making marks is our essence, just that it is something we do naturally, and that how we do it matters. Calderhead wrote this in his […]
Created In Our Image
Trying to walk past mannikins is futile if you have a camera in your hand. Mannikins, like grave stones and sun sets, pull camera lenses to them and we, the image makers, have no choice but to release the shutters of our cameras and publish the results. This was made clear to me on Sunday morning, Sept. […]
Copy Protection
Here is something rare. I’ve posted a high res version of a photo on the Web. Click on the above photo, and a high-res image will appear in a new window. You can then right-click on the large image to download it to your computer, where you can use as your desktop image or as […]
Ice Cubes Melt
Like many photographers, I keep alert, paying attention to my eyes when they are delighted. Since I travel little, and have little time to set up a shot, I rely on God, or perhaps you’d call it happenstance or serendipity, to provide my subjects. This photo of ice cubes melting inside a blue plastic cup […]
Turbulent Clouds
An awesome storm front moved over the parking lot of Barnes & Noble tonight just as my wife, friends, and I arrived about sunset. I shot several minutes of video in the parking lot but then the lightning strikes alarmed my company, who started shouting at me. Then I moved under cover and shot these […]
A Moving Photograph
Let’s start with a still photo. Adding Movement — Is a photo better if it moves? Let me show you one that does if you click on the PLAY button. Adding Music — Is a moving photo better is you add music? Below I’ve added music by Milton Peasley from 2003, a piece he called “The […]
Truth Doesn’t Need Us Minnows
We mixers of images and words will start with an image or start with the words. Today I started with this image of a trailer I passed while driving east on State Highway 9 near Haydenville, MA late on Friday afternoon, June 22, 2012. I was a mile down the road before I decided to […]
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