I often wonder if the whole concept of a Supreme being might simply be simply inspired by our own primal and innate desire to create. While the Great One’s handiwork resulted in the construction of an entire Universe from what was apparently a black and silent void, we humans are constrained to create by mixing, adding, subtracting, blending, and fabricating from those substances that are already available to us here on earth, in the sky above us and from within our own imaginations.

For me, nothing is more gratifying than to find a scene or place in the world that I can capture, then later render on screen or in print, to convey a similar ambience, presence and beauty as what I witnessed originally. To accomplish this, sometimes I feel the need to enhance the original by using, say, ...

Have you ever, honestly, taken a truly great photograph when you were uninspired or simply going through the motions. I don’t mean the creation of that single errant photo that all of us once in a while simply luck into when snapping the shutter out in the world, but rather a day where you created consistently great imagery that matched the grandeur of your inner vision.

I had a friend once who said, after seeing an Ansel Adams print hanging in my office, “Yeah, nice photograph, but anyone with a camera could take that.” I resisted the urge to argue with him but instead spent the next few days thinking about what he said and contemplating what it was that made one photograph different from another in terms of quality and essence. After all, I knew that two people could stand in virtually ...