A barn find is a classic car or motorcycle that’s been discovered, often in derelict condition. The term comes from the tendency of these kinds of cars and truck’s to be found in places such as barns and outbuildings where they’ve been stored perhaps for many years but in truth “barn finds” can be found anywhere…

Flashback: Recently, my wife and I were having lunch and I told her I was having trouble coming up with a new theme for my Tuesday blog posts and she suggested “Tricky Tuesday” as a way to share some of the different tricks, tips and techniques I’ve used over the...

Because of health challenges…Keeping up to date with seven posts per week has proven challenging for me so I am going to revive a practice that I used when I had surgery on my hand a few years ago—a “best of posts” series.

The late Richard Avedon once said, “A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows [that] he is being photographed.” That’s because a portrait seldom represents reality. Instead it’s a snapshot of a point in time that represents an idealized version of someone who knows they’re being photographed.

I’ve been a photographer since I was eight year old when my parents gave me a Kodak box camera and I immediately set out, driven by unknown forces, to document my neighborhood.  I became a professional photographer when somebody first paid me money to make pictures but was the quality of the photographs that I made any better than the images I shot the day before I cashed that check. I don’t think so.