In my experiences as a boy I remember the kitchen best. My mother is kneading bread and the sunbeams stream through the antique glass in long hazy winter rays. The old queen Atlantic wood stove is gently ticking and making other breathing sounds. A kettle...
I come from a long line of early risers. One of my first memories is of my grandma, slowly gliding into her kitchen in the wee hours of the morning, making herself a cup of tea and sitting and reading. I remember the glow of...
I’ve been in the midst of what seems to be the Longest Transition Ever. Choosing to leave a career and the only work you have ever known is never easy. What makes this transition harder than my tween years is that the chasm between the...
Photography courtesy of @limnic6 from #XOffering...
Grab your camera and go! Don't think. Follow your creative instincts, let go, enjoy, get out of your head that tends to over-think if given the chance, open up and allow yourself to see; not just with your eyes, but with something deep inside of you that...
OC: What or who has influenced you to take pictures and, as you've said before, "stop time"? JV: It is difficult to tell what or who influenced me to start taking pictures. I started as a young boy, with an old Agfa Clack given to me...
[caption id="attachment_159" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Image courtesy of Stephanie Baughn : @Bonneyboys[/caption] We are together. It’s a phrase, an idea, a way of being that is near and dear to Our Collective hearts. Together, as in us, as in you, as in each of us or better said,...
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I photograph out of a need, a necessity, a deep yearning to safely be together. It’s a given that photography is going to give you plenty of alone time to search, seek, contemplate and study this Universe around us, but the nugget, the true gift to...
In this issue of X : Our Collective Offering, we ponder time. How do we perceive this thing that either eludes us or crowds us? In our need for balance do we attempt to control that which might be better served with acceptance? As photographers...