Blog - Dyslexic Daydreams
There is no more significant symbol of the desert southwest than the saguaro cactus. Saguaros are the giants of the...
I cannot recall when I first learned about the Palouse region of Eastern Washington, but it has been on my ...
It was late afternoon, and I had just finished photographing an abandoned house southwest of Moscow...
I have been a fan of The Doors for many years. Let me explain. When I was a teenager, I discovered the band, and around 22, I started taking photographs of doors...
There is a saying in the photography world, “Photograph what you love and you love what you photograph”. I photograph the things and locations...
I still remember the old Ham's Beer ads that used the slogan "Land of Sky Blue Waters" in their ...
As a young boy, I dreamed of exploring the world while looking through magazines like National Geographic, Life, Look, and Sunset.
Over the past forty years, I have often heard comments on location like, "Nice camera! You must get great pictures?"
Do not be in a rush. Please slow down, walk, take your time, feel the environment, smell it, listen to it, and look at it. Take time to...
Traveling west on N Kinney road from the Red Hills Visitors Center in Saguaro National Park Tucson Mountian District (TMD) you...
Just south and west of Tucson sits the Tucson Mountains, and our home is on the southwest side. Going north from our backyard, you immediately step into...
Over the last decade the ever popular social media app has taken off and so many people have become instagramers. You can walk up to...
As I write this, I have been photographing Barrio Viejo for fifteen years. The doors, windows, and other architectural details have captured my...
The Old Pablo has many older buildings that are time capsules from the past. I have always been fond...
The advancement in technology in the last 40 years has been amazing to witness, but now I’m scared of ...
School in the '60s & '70s was no fun. Almost daily, I would be called slow, stupid, lazy, unable to...
During my recovery from surgery, I had a lot of time on my hands. There was no way I would get out ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac (White Dove of the Desert) is a National Historic Landmark built between 1783 and ...
Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, or at least that's what the license plate claims. However, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the count is closer to...
Adding a sunburst is a straightforward trick. For best results, you want a small...
It's about three forty-five in the morning. As I get out of bed and make coffee, I have enough time to drink a cup while I get...
I walked down the trail in the dark an hour or so before the sun would rise over lake Itasca. The faint sound of water flowing over the...
Typically in May, the Saguaro Cactus begins to bloom and will continue...
We arrived after dark the night before. It had been almost six months since the old cabin closed was ...
We moved to Tucson, Arizona after spending several visits getting to know the different parts of town. We found our house on...
Creating a starburst in an image can immediately impact a photo if done correctly. Some filter manufacturers make a starburst filter. I do not own one and never will. I prefer to create the effect through physics.
Wow! It does not seem possible that thirty years have come and gone since my first meeting at Itasca State Park. I asked...
Sunrise, it is why I get up every day at...
Through out my early years of schooling, I would be laughed at during class because I’m dyslexic. But, my mother always told me, “Do your best.”
Minnesota’s State Flower in Latin is (Cypripedium reginae). I have always referred to this wild orchid as the ...
It was April in 2008 and we were spending some time in Tucson on our way back to Minnesota for the summer. As usual I was looking for the chance to make some photographs.
This past June, we spent a week in southwestern Minnesota at Blue Mounds State Park and nearby Touch the Sky Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge. It was the first experience of hiking on the prairie and it
This is a stunning image of a sunrise over Lake Superior, and I wish I had never been able to make it! I know you probably think I have completely lost it. Let me explain.
During non-pandemic times I would have several multi-day photography trips planned for each season.
During this outbreak I have begun to explore closer to home.
When I photograph a subject regardless if I have never been there, or it's an old familiar subject, it all starts with warm up images. What I mean is that I like to visually explore the scene while making exposures both in...
The Headwaters of the Mississippi is one of those attractions that draws visitors from around the world. The vast majority arrive during the summer season. On any given day form spring into fall you will find...
This afternoon I woke from a short nap and reminded myself of a statement I had made to my wife yesterday or the day before
I had only been photographing in Itasca State Park (Mississippi Headwaters) for a few years when I made this cool image of Wilderness Drive as it winds its way through a stand of virgin pine. The yellows, golds, and light greens
A piece of advise we were given before graduation from photography school was to look at as much photography in the genre that you wanted to pursue a career in. Back before the internet, the best way to do this was by looking at magazines and other print material
The sunsets here in Arizona can be amazing. I often overhear people talking about the sunset the other night and how great it was, and it was pretty awesome.
Summer in the Sonoran Desert can be brutal, deadly, and very beautiful. Temperatures are often north of 100 degrees fahrenheit. Mid-afternoon can bring thunderstorms that bring moisture from the Gulf of California.
I woke one morning to some of the thickest pea soup fog I have ever seen. By 8:30 am it was thinning slowly, and I excused my self to make some photographs
Along the northwestern shore of the northern arm of Lake Itasca runs the Schoolcraft Trail.
It’s the middle of July, and the daily high temps are running north of 100, and we are waiting for the first lightning storm of the monsoon season.
The Twin Ports of Superior Wisconsin and Duluth Minnesota has the distinction of being the worlds furthest inland seaport.
I woke early one winter morning knowing that it had been snowing pretty good when I had gone to bed the night before.
At the southern tip of Baja California near Cabo San Lucas lies an area that the locals call Lands End. Jutting out into the water is an impressive rock formation where one will find “El Arco” or The Arch. It is at this point where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez meet.
A month after 911, my wife Debbie and I moved to Kailua-Kona
A piece of advise we were given before graduation from photography school was to look at as much photography in the genre that you wanted to pursue a career in. Back before the internet, the best way to do this was by looking at magazines
I was in my early thirties when I was first invited to show my work to Mike Kovacovich, manager and the rest of the management staff at Itasca State Park.
The Twin Ports of Superior Wisconsin and Duluth Minnesota has the distinction of being the worlds furthest inland seaport. Each summer ships from around the world visit the ports on the Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
When I am out making photographs I tend to make a lot of exposures (something new since going digital)
I often hear customers say they can not believe how crisp and clean my photographs are. To which I explain that my goal is to put the viewer of my images in my shoes at the time of the exposure.
Duluth, Minnesota happens to be the world’s furthest inland sea port thanks to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Duluth is a boat watches paradise during...
It snowed one night. “So what is so unusual about that you ask?” After, all you lived...
My mothers youngest brother and his artist wife live in an old ocean front house that had to be at least one hundred and fifty years old or older and it sat above the Atlantic ocean and
I’m often asked “how do you make the water blurry like that?” Well, many years ago I was reading a book by Les Blacklock
Most of my photographs have been constructed in my mind before the camera is attached to its tripod. This process can happen very quickly or it take time.
I had been photographing the Common Loon (Gavia immer), the state bird of Minnesota for several years. I lived in the town of Walker on Leech Lake the third largest lake in the state. I had a number of images that I was selling
Regardless of what we do, we all have a comfort zone where we feel safe and secure in our lives and jobs
Late one very warm October afternoon I went for a hike out in Tucson Mountian Park to the Desert Discovery Center.
No! I am not going to stop my photographic work to take a snap shot of you with your phone. Sorry!
I first visited Itasca as a young boy in the 1960s and like most youngsters I played in the water
Thats a cool black and white photograph, how did you get it to look that way?
It looked like a promising sky but what to place in the foreground to complete the image?
Little did I know way back when, how important something as small as a list would be in my life.
I would get sent off to the “special” class.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, La Casa Cordova is the oldest home in downtown Tucson.
Historians believe that the original portions may have been built prior to...
"The deer ate my picture"
