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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...

Evolution was my word for 2013 because on so many levels I longed for change. Whether I realized it at the time or not, that meant I was unreservedly open to transformation. In hindsight, I recognize that because of that, I was also willing to...

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...

I often share the story that I was once told by my art teacher that I “made the most beautiful mistakes” he had ever seen.  Looking back, I could have taken that all wrong. Instead, I wore it as a badge of honor. It was...

[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,...

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...