Photography and the Creative Process

I chanced upon a stunningly mysterious black and white portrait of the 1920’s actress, Louise Brooks. I am inspired by this image.
You may view that photograph by clicking –here–.

The 2007 Maryland Renaissance Festival has ended. I attended several times and walked around taking pictures.As a groupie to my friend, Charlotte’s women’s quartet, Seraphim, I naturally shot a lot of photos of their performances.
Seraphim performs each year at the Rennaisance fair, but also offers a traditional Christmas program. In addition, the ladies transform [...]

There are numerous ways to convert color photos to black and white in Photoshop. Simply changing the mode to grayscale or desaturating the photo are two simple methods that often result in a flat uninteresting image. A more sophisticated approach is to open the Photoshop Channels tab to find the three separate channels [...]

One may gather from my first two posts [What Makes an Artist, October 6, 2007, and My Autumnal Garden, October 4, 2007] the gist of this web site. Those posts illustrate, perhaps, a type of thinking that a dear friend and I often refer to as “oogly”. For fear that I might [...]

A recent correspondent, after looking at the photos in the Gatesman Photo Gallery, observed that telling our individual experiences through the process of “doing art” is a way in which we may connect to the universe. It is this ability, the correspondent suggests, that makes us humans and not just animals.