“Part of the difficulty in being both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth of the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction that you are worn down by the threat.” ~ Robert Adams I approach this topic with a degree of trepidation. I have two rules when it comes to writing. First, I try not to...

It’s snowing out today, the pretty wet stuff that clings to every branch and bough. I wonder, if I were to go out with my camera, what would I see that I haven’t photographed before? Would I see the familiar as new, or fall back on old tropes? I have been passionately practicing photography for 30 years. Like many of us, my desire in the early days was to make photos like those I saw in calendars, magazines, and coffee table books—beautiful images of beautiful places captured under just the...

I recently learned a new word: pluviophile. A pluviophile is someone who loves rain, finding joy and peace of mind during rainy days....