The moon is radiant and clear bathing the ground in her pale light. Under a cloudless sky, the trade wind blows through the Koa forest and only the brightest stars are visible. Regulus and Leo take my vision, their light captivates me. Light that started its journey before I was born to reach this earth. [...]
Photo by, Richard A. Cooke III
The happy week has been a blur. Old friends, new friends, good food, good wine, good talk, and lots of laughter – the sum total of being alive and open and free. Tonight we gave a slide show of the images everyone created during the week, and the images sang [...]
4:30 am alarm. Dark outside. Sleep fills my mind and whispers for me to stay in bed. Come back, it says. You don’t really need to get up. You can stay in this comfortable bed. Wouldn’t you rather dream than take photographs this morning? Then something wakes up just enough to swing my legs off [...]
A long nondescript path rolls gently downhill through the moss filled forest where sound is dampened and all that remains is the hiss of the ocean wind through the treetops. Although they cannot yet be seen, the 2000-foot precipice diving down to the Pacific Ocean alerts my soul as I walk towards one of the [...]
I find my mind wandering even as I speak to what lies beyond the technique and into the meat of the whole reason we do this. The vision. If technique without vision is meaningless and vision without technique is blind, Photoshop is the ultimate conundrum!
Nothing. I have nothing. I have no camera, yet i have access to every camera i could ever need. Vision. I have nothing, but have access to a landscape and a world that excites me every time i see it. Empty. My vision feels empty until out on the rocks something turns my head. How [...]
Rekindling the Creative Spirit - the title and intent of our week on Molokai. Today, enough baco bits of wisdom have been sprinkled on the proverbial salad bar of life to float us for the rest of the seminar — and we are just getting warmed up! It is an interesting week for me, because [...]
A successful week in Ketchum/Sun Valley Idaho and the “Masala of Digital Imaging Techniques” workshop.
