“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. ”
― Walker Evans
I have seen many pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, located in San Francisco, California, since becoming a photographer. The images that seem to stay with me are the ones that have the bridge disappearing into the fog.
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow
The first stop for our summer family vacation this year was San Francisco. One of the things my family wanted to do was visit Alcatraz Island. Luckily, we heard that tickets needed to be
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”
― Neil Gaiman
Each year, at this time, I feel compelled to take my camera...
“Photographic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.” ― George Barr I just finished my thirty-first year teaching young children in the public schools of the Carolinas. The past twenty-six years have been spent teaching at the same school located in Charlotte, NC. Since I am in the...
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
-John Muir
I have always loved this quote from John Muir. There is a place that seems to call to me, especially in the springtime. That place is not the mountains. The place that calls to me time and time again is
“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
― Elliot Erwitt
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure to present to the CNPA Upstate group in Greenville, SC. ...
“There is no city on Earth quite like Charleston. From the time I first came there in 1961, it’s held me in its enchanter’s power, the wordless articulation of its singularity, its withheld and magical beauty. Wandering through its streets can be dreamlike and otherworldly, its alleyways and shortcuts both fragrant and mysterious, yet...
“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein
This week’s composite started with a gift that I received from my lifelong friend, Dena Roten. Dena and I have been friends ever since the day I got locked out of my house when I was ten years old. ...
