This October I spent a wonderful week with the students and faculty of Hampden-Sydney College. There were many enjoyable hours…teaching an underwater filming workshop at a pond, strolling through the woods during an Art and Ecology class, and standing beside photography students in a darkroom. My knowledge of traditional printing came alive again, tucked away Read more about Artist-in-Residence[…]
This week I did Day Ten’s assignment, which is to take photographs representing earth, fire, water, and air. I walked along the stone wall where I did Day Twelve for the book, a place I enjoy revisiting. It’s on top of a hill, so rain tends to pour off of it and not collect. Water Read more about Day Ten: The Four Elements[…]
September is a big month! First, there was the gallery show August-September at Hampden-Sydney College, which just came down. I’ll be the artist-in-residence there in October, and students got their first look at my work. I’ll be leading workshops this fall, working underwater at a lush pond on campus, bringing along several underwater cameras for Read more about September Screenings[…]
This week I got a shot I’ve been trying to get for a while. Butterflies like to eat the minerals from the soil around the Rivanna River, especially where Trevilian’s Creek enters the river. This week they were in bunches getting nourishment, so I put my camera underneath the stream, and the butterflies kept flying Read more about An Underwater View of Tiger Swallowtails[…]
This summer at the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center, to teach underwater filming, we had children find floatable objects on our little island in the Rivanna, and we’d film the selection as they passed over the camera. They could be natural objects or human-made, and unexpectedly they were a reflection of the amount of trash Read more about Highway Walkers Film Festival in Alaska[…]
A photograph is not a replication of what we see, or else it would include the shadow impression of our noses, our brow, and even bits of hair. We generally ignore our consciousness of the recesses our eyes, and we don’t assign an exact shape to what we see. It is definitely not a rectangle. Read more about The Viewfinder[…]
Today at the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center we prepared for our first photography workshop based on “21 Days of Mindful Photography.” The book asks people to photograph within their homes to start out with, giving them the experience that their familiar windows can become new eyes on the world, and the idea that their Read more about Outdoor Windows[…]
For those who like to know what’s ahead, here’s the First Week Poster from the new book…