July 12, 2011
Frenzied lives spin round my still core…I feel a 24 hour period captured on a single piece of film. I’ve been feeling a strong stillness within me the last 24 hours. Reasons for which I am unaware. Even the voice of my dear…Read the full Dispatch
June 2, 2011
On the way back to camp at the end of our first day of photographing in Yosemite we walked through a still forest. The depth created by the light through the atmosphere created a soft and mysterious presence. I stopped, took a breath,…Read the full Dispatch
June 1, 2011
I was welcomed this morning by the fact that, quite possibly, photographers don’t take themselves as serious as I had originally thought…. As I start printing my negatives from the San Miguel Mission workshop I recently attended and the negs from Yosemite, I…Read the full Dispatch
May 19, 2011
How strange it was to step into my accommodations at the San Miguel Mission. Wooden floors, adobe walls, small twin beds and decades of quiet prayers lingering though out the ‘Novice’ quarters—those yet to walk the committed path of a Friar. The simplicity…Read the full Dispatch
May 11, 2011
My box of FP4 arrived today…100 sheets of 4×5 film! A box of new film always makes me feel abundant…a worth of equal weight to gold in my mind. I’m heading off to a 4-day workshop at the San Miguel Mission. Under the…Read the full Dispatch
May 11, 2011
The dentist’s kids have the worst teeth…so we are told. As a web designer and developer, I cringe at the sight of the first website I ever built which was my original photography website. Actually I liked the design but code was ugly.…Read the full Dispatch
May 11, 2011
Though I don’t consider myself a landscape photographer, I must say that I am looking forward to my 4-day trip to Yosemite with Brett Thomas. I’ve never been to Yosemite in the Spring. Usually I pass through there in the fall on my…Read the full Dispatch
May 1, 2011
Carrying Stones It was a week ago today I first stepped through the weathered-grey gate. Greetings by an old soul, a poet himself, ever reverent of each stone. An exercise in discovery – a façade I would build having expressed an understanding or…Read the full Dispatch