Photography blog

AI was learning my preferences. But were its suggestions still responding to each photograph? Developing “The Conversation” helped me recognize when a useful pattern had become a formula.

A comment about the texture in “This Way” made me question the evaluation itself. That conversation revealed a distinction between noticing an effect and identifying a weakness—and became the beginning of Learning To See.

I was once told that I asked the most annoying question: why. That question now helps me evaluate ChatGPT’s suggestions, develop my work, and understand the choices I make.

One photograph. One unexpected crow.
Unmoved follows a caption-writing journey from the first look at the composition through the search for a title, the choice of words, and the final review.
What began as a photograph of light, dark, movement, and stillness became a lesson in knowing when to say less.

Once I decide that what the camera records is only the beginning, I also accept the possibility of going too far.

The camera records what is in front of me. But that is not always the photograph I am trying to make.

Why remembering what I learned became part of The Work.

As I began revisiting photographs for The Work, something unexpected happened.

I wasn't only learning about individual photographs.

​I was learning about how I see.

Why I began returning to these photographs and putting words beside them.

When I began rebuilding The Work, I knew I wanted the photographs to be more than a collection of images on a website.

I wanted there to be something of me there too.

Scroll to explore ↓​ Creating images about, not of; creating questions, not understandings; seeking contemplation, not interpretation. View “Between Them” in The Work →The scene is where the photograph begins—not where it has to end.My work begins with photographs I take. In Photoshop, I shape them toward the image I envision.​ Every photograph is an invitation—not to find answers, but to pause long enough to ask new questions. View Autumn, Reimagined in The Work → My hope is n.....