Author at Large
Thrilled the TAG Gallery in Los Angeles accepted my photograph CoGen for the 2019 California Exhibition. Their juror, Ruth Weisbergchose 110 artworks for this year’s exhibition from 1,400+submissions received nationwide. The exhibition runs from August 7 through August 23 and the artists’ reception and awards ceremony is on Saturday, August 10, from 5 to 8 pm.
I sold my first limited edition photograph. Winter’s Tree 1/20. It’s funny because I’ve been feeling pretty down about things not selling. My girlfriend had just said, things will click, just keep the faith. Right after she said that I get a call from the gallery. They need another photograph to fill the now empty …
Enjoy this post from my photography website.
A great crash from Sophia’s room. An avalanche like distant trees toppling in the shock wave ahead of a meteor. I know I should be more diligent or insistent or some other force implying word about the cluttered space known as her room. But I am not in a position to point fingers. In my …
I awoke. The light streamed slantwise through louvre style blinds across the double bed for one. Groggy and reaching for the iPhone, I knock over the wine glass. It falls and hits the carpet with the thump of a cat paw. At night, I have a glass of wine or a bottle of beer or …
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Observation, it has been observed, is a key element in being a writer (just think any artist when I say writer). Indeed some say to live a fulfilling and joyful life a person must be able to live in the moment. It’s hard to escape the moment when you are savoring it no matter what …
My friend and fellow Jack Kent Cooke scholar Harun Mehmedinović has started his second Kickstarter project, Persona. His first book Seance became one of the top ten Kickstarter campaigns for a photography of all time. His photography features amateur models wearing flowing gowns or costumes that inspire feelings of wonder and incongruity within the settings. …
I’ve always wanted to be writer. Or more precisely, a storyteller. When my first daughter was born I was in my mid-thirties. I worked as a firefighter/forestry worker still going through the motions of writing stories and poems and getting some published, but realized how inadequate it was. I had bought into the notion that …
Been reading lots of articles on how to promote a book and all are social media gaga. One article said authors needed to be social media gurus or suffer no readers and another said soon social media will be dead and all this fuss will be gone. Maybe the Book of Revelations will come through, …
I pulled into the strip mall parking lot. The sun had gone down and night crushed orange colors from the sky. The Goodwill was packed and the Dollar Store’s lights flooded the sidewalk. I paused in after shutting the truck door. The silhouette of a water tower with its red light on top flashing next …