Happy New Year! May All Your New Year’s Resolutions Come to Pass

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Dancing Frog at the Olney Farmers’ & Artists’ Market this Sunday!

Just a quick post to tell you that Dancing Frog Art’s first day at the Olney Farmers’ & Artists’ Market is this Sunday morning from 9 AM to 1 PM.  Sara Mroz – the artist behind Dancing Frog Art – makes the most beautiful, cute painted chairs.  Your child will LOVE them!!!  Anyway, I’ve [...]

Cathedral of St. Matthew in 360 Degrees…Left, Right, and Up and Down

When I photographed the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC last weekend, I also shot a sequence of 59 images (360 degrees around me plus up and down, making a 3D, 360-degree sphere), as I wanted to try a 360 degree panorama, as well as a stereographic (spherical) panorama.  Check’em out [...]

Wishing You Peace

Front – Holiday Card

Inside – Holiday Card

Back – Holiday Card

Dear Friends,

As the cold settles in for the winter, as snowflakes begin to fall, and as the new year approaches…I think back on 2010, I smile, and I realize that my family and I have a lot [...]

Great Falls Sunset: Vision Doesn't End with the Click of the Shutter

The summer sun sets in glorious colors over Great Falls in Potomac, Maryland.

I’ve been contemplating the image-creation process this week, as I work on a series of images of Great Falls.  I thought I’d share some of my musings about the three essential steps to great image-making:

Step 1: Defining your vision [...]

What's your photographic story?

"Womanhood," Africa Dreamed Collection: A woman in the village of Diagourou near Tera, Niger wears the traditional silver jewelry of the Fulani people. Diagourou is a 5-km, very sandy motorcycle ride from the town of Tera, where I lived during my third year as a Peace Corps volunteer. I was working with the [...]