Pup Town

best friends

Here's To the Crazy Ones - Think Different - Steve Jobs Tribute

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Something different

My new Cat

The Airborne Toxic Event - VEVO Go Shows: Changing

The Graveyard Near The House (Bombastic Video)

my dad

My dad helping me pick Buffalo Berries this morning

Ghosts Along the Lane

State Corrals

To those who love me and whom I love- to those who feel rather than those who think - to dreamers, and to those who have trust in dreams as the only reality. Edgar Allen Poe Dedication from Eureka

To those who love me and whom I love- to those who feel rather than those who think - to dreamers, and to those who have trust in dreams as the only reality. Edgar Allen Poe Dedication from Eureka

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allen Poe

A dugout

The homesteaders dugout is located  in the Little Missouri River valley in southeast Montana. It seems so sad and at the same time wonderful to find these relics of an age forgotten.

politics

American political discourse scares me. It is impossible to step out and enter the conversation. Those out there seem to feel that if they don't bully and fight those they disagree with they are somehow not "American" If your belief will not stand up to questioning you have a problem. No One knows it all.

A manifesto

These following principles will guide both my personal

and professional life:

1. The greatest creative work comes from being self-reliant.

I want to take my photography to the edge and do something

worth talking about. In four words: I will not settle.

2. I will always look for the beauty in everything that touches

my life.

3. I will always treat my clients with honesty and integrity;

in the same way I would want to be treated.

4. I will remember mass taste is not usually good taste at

the same time I do not allow my perception of what art is

to become elitist.

5. I will take seriously a commitment to life long learning;

my craft and generally.

6. I will always have worthwhile goals to work toward, both

professionally and personally.

7.I will strive to live a simple life; Simplicity is about

subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

8. From Frank Lloyd Wright: An eye to see nature,

A heart to feel nature, and The courage to follow nature.

9. The courage to except nothing but excellence at the same

time realizing I will at times fail.

10. To search for elegance and beauty even in the common place.

Through the glass darkly

My photography is and will always be influenced by the rural environment of the Tri-State area. My roots run deep here. I live only nine miles from the ranch I grew up on. That ranch contains both the homestead of my Grandfather and the homestead of my Great-Grandfather. I see changes happening at an ever increasing tempo; many of those changes are to me- negative changes. Honestly; I just love to shoot, but those times when I am able to photograph in a way that expresses the soul of the land and the people who live here I find great reward.

Photography gives me a way to capture the beauty of a land that many see no beauty in. For many of the travelers along US Highway 212 (The Warrior Trail) southeast Montana is a place to get through on the way to Yellowstone National Park or to the Black Hills. They miss what nature is offering them in the stark landscape, the deer, the antelope, the fox, the abandon house that was someones home.

The oppurtunities are endless for the great shot. I find that the use of both black and white and color capture the soul of the prairie. Most images call out for the use of film. It is hard iin an area where in many ways time has stood still to capture the feel of the land with digital equipment. My heart will always be with film and the darkroom. With film each print is different. There are no two gelatin silver prints that are the same. Unlike digital where after the original manipulation each and every print is the same.

In an area where the view changes with each step sameness is empty.

my best dog