I’m Back!

It has been a long few years but I’m back now, cranking away, as creative and grumpy as I have always been. The book I started 4 years ago is now mostly finished- just a couple more chapters to go- 100,000 words! – a curious number since I only know about...
How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book

Since you didn’t ask, I thought I would give you, my lone reader, a personalized insider’s view of the hows, whys and wherefores of writing a book. I have done this 12 times in the past and I still don’t really know how it happens and I certainly haven’t learned how...
On Photography

On Photography

There are rules, guidelines, suggestions, recommendations, procedures, instructions and directions in photography and all of them are handy most of the time and dreadful some of the time. As is said “Rules are made to be broken.” But there are also Laws in photography...
On the night of April 25th, 2021

On the night of April 25th, 2021

On the night of April 25th, 2021, one hundred million migrating birds, flying northeast, crossed the Texas coast. One night, over 100 million birds; how is this comprehendible?  It’s not, not to mostly daylight living humans firmly stuck to the hard ground of...
Reflections

Reflections

Reflections are a very popular subject to photograph- our eye is attracted to the odd nature of seeing part of the world upside down! While it seems very straight forward to take a picture of a reflection it is more difficult than you think if you want to get...