Originally from Savannah, GA I have been fortunate enough to have traveled the world, finally settling down in the beautiful town of New London, Minnesota.
My origins in photography start with a camera received as a gift from my maternal grandmother for my 7th birthday. For many years, photography was simply a magical means of capturing a snapshot of friends, celebrations, and places.
As I became aware of the work of photographers such as Ansel Adams, William Eggleston, Henri Cartier Bresson, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon (to name just a few) I came to realize photography can offer much more than just capturing a snippet of a time and place - and that there is a difference between a picture and a photograph.
My passion is capturing images through the medium of film that evoke feelings and emotions in much the same way that painters, sculptors, potters, poets, writers, and musicians do in their respective mediums. Where Ansel Adams is world-renown for capturing spectacular black and white photographs of the American West, I seek to share my vision of the spectacular vistas of the everyday beauty that surrounds each of us - including the spectacular vistas of everyday New London, Spicer and surrounding communities.
An additional collection of galleries of my photographs can be found athttp://www.pbase.com/harpeggio
If you wish to contact me via email you can do so here: Email
A Few Worthwhile Quotes Regarding Photography:
"Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel." ~Peter Adams
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." ~Robert Heinecken
"I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money." ~Philippe Halsman
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." ~Richard Avedon
"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse." ~Diane Arbus
"If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul." ~Author Unknown
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange
"This is the essence of a work of art: that you never touch bottom. If a picture has for everybody exactly the same meaning, it is a platitude, and it is meaningless as a work of art. The same is true for a portrait: if it is not rich in character and meaning, it is a poor portrait." ~Philippe Halsman - "An 'Astonish me' Sunday", A Sermon by Philippe Halsman, Popular Photography, March 1967, p. 64
"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera." ~Edward Steichen
"When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject." ~Anonymous
"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it." ~John Berger
"People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that!" ~Larry (Chris Elliott) in the movie "Groundhog Day"
"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." ~Robert Adams
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." ~Usman B. Asif
"One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style."
~Author Unknown
My origins in photography start with a camera received as a gift from my maternal grandmother for my 7th birthday. For many years, photography was simply a magical means of capturing a snapshot of friends, celebrations, and places.
As I became aware of the work of photographers such as Ansel Adams, William Eggleston, Henri Cartier Bresson, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon (to name just a few) I came to realize photography can offer much more than just capturing a snippet of a time and place - and that there is a difference between a picture and a photograph.
My passion is capturing images through the medium of film that evoke feelings and emotions in much the same way that painters, sculptors, potters, poets, writers, and musicians do in their respective mediums. Where Ansel Adams is world-renown for capturing spectacular black and white photographs of the American West, I seek to share my vision of the spectacular vistas of the everyday beauty that surrounds each of us - including the spectacular vistas of everyday New London, Spicer and surrounding communities.
An additional collection of galleries of my photographs can be found athttp://www.pbase.com/harpeggio
If you wish to contact me via email you can do so here: Email
A Few Worthwhile Quotes Regarding Photography:
"Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel." ~Peter Adams
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." ~Robert Heinecken
"I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money." ~Philippe Halsman
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." ~Richard Avedon
"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse." ~Diane Arbus
"If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul." ~Author Unknown
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange
"This is the essence of a work of art: that you never touch bottom. If a picture has for everybody exactly the same meaning, it is a platitude, and it is meaningless as a work of art. The same is true for a portrait: if it is not rich in character and meaning, it is a poor portrait." ~Philippe Halsman - "An 'Astonish me' Sunday", A Sermon by Philippe Halsman, Popular Photography, March 1967, p. 64
"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera." ~Edward Steichen
"When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject." ~Anonymous
"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it." ~John Berger
"People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that!" ~Larry (Chris Elliott) in the movie "Groundhog Day"
"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." ~Robert Adams
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." ~Usman B. Asif
"One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style."
~Author Unknown