Who doesn’t love the fun & functional ampersand? From jotting a shorthand “and” to corporate names, this little character is ubiquitously useful. To acknowledge & applaud this great little glyph, National Ampersand Day is observed annually on September 8th. Did you know that..

For another more personal take on Labor Day, please visit my car photography blog today for my post “Labor Day Memories of My Father.”

When working outside the studio, I don’t get fussy about posing subjects. I just watch what they do naturally and try to have them interact with their environment in a way that’s physically comfortable for them

A poorly cropped photograph has TMI: Too Much Information. But let me repeat myself: Cropping is one of the most Creative Tools that a Photographer has

Once upon a time in Albuquerque, after lunch at my favorite taco stand, I walked past a group of young women who were having their lunch and overheard one of them saying, “You can’t capture the essence of a person with a photograph.”