A Thanksgiving post

by | Nov 25, 2009 | inspiration | 0 comments

I’ve spoken of gratitude in previous posts and yet today it seems appropriate to give thanks to my teachers and to teachers everywhere.  I’ll take this idea a little further and give thanks to my students as well.  For they are the reason that teaching is...

knowing your subject too well?

by | Nov 17, 2009 | inspiration | 4 comments

In my last post I mentioned that in order to photograph your subject well you must know it deeply.  But knowing my subject too well became a challenge.  Upon my return from Europe in the summer of 2006 I was deeply frustrated photographically.  I had spent the...
The landscape of memory

The landscape of memory

by | Nov 13, 2009 | inspiration, Uncategorized | 6 comments

Thinking of Eudora Welty’s landscape triggered thoughts of my own.  Growing up on a small farm outside of Shepherdstown, WV, shaped me in particular ways.  It was a quiet place with 40 acres to roam that was bordered by larger farms on all sides.  There was a...
Eudora Welty and the photography of the South

Eudora Welty and the photography of the South

by | Nov 10, 2009 | inspiration | 7 comments

I mentioned yesterday that I wanted to write about a literary background for photography, not just my photography, but how it shaped a landscape for others as well.  When I first picked up the book, The Well and the Mine, by Gin Phillips, I was attracted to the cover...