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This site also documents my return to photography, one image a day, one story at a time.

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A grey heron stands motionless in the reeds, its reflection barely disturbed.
Stillness, patience, and balance—sometimes the photograph is already waiting.

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Moving from Clicking to Capturing and Creating images.
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Moving from Clicking to Capturing and Creating images.

Moving away from simply clicking photographs and towards actively capturing and creating images greatly increases your chances of making strong photographs. As I restart my own photography, I’m rediscovering ideas I had let slip, and this one feels fundamental.

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As i work on seeing the world through a lens again, i am always looking for interesting light.

As the morning light comes through our living room window, it reflects off of the tile floor and makes a strange camera obscura effect on the wall. My daughter creeps into the scene to make this serial, magical moment.

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