I originally titled this piece “Life After Social Media: The Reckoning,” but thought it too melodramatic. It did make me smile, though. It was around this time three years ago when I quit social media. No doubt you remember where you were or what you were doing that day. I am often asked by other photographers how life has been without social media. Specifically, they are interested in how it has affected my photography, both creatively and from a business perspective, since this is my...

“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...