We are not one, we are many. Each of us. (But which one of us is going to show up?) — I talk a lot about “state” and how much our inner states affect what we do and how well we do it. We all know that when we’re in a tired and irritable state, […]
Inviting enchantment into your life … by giving it somewhere comfy to sit — Our artistic lives are uniquely portable. And I love that part of it. It’s easy to carry a camera just about anywhere (even easier to carry an iPhone), and it’s easy to set up shop with our journals or laptops wherever […]
Remember Your Cape? Remember When Everything Was Bigger Than Life? Have you ever created an image from a place of sheer exhilaration, wild with an idea you can’t keep in any longer? . . . A Video Post, by Sebastian Michaels Video Note: If you run into playback problems, pause the video and let it […]
Any Dream You Can Dream — It’s All Right There. Stalking the world with your camera can be solitary work. Sitting late into an evening with Photoshop open, laboring over a complicated selection or fine-tuning a layer mask, can be lonely work. But the freedom we have as artists can be … exquisite … A […]
Putting In the Work — While I tend to think of “pushing photography further” as mostly involving a combination of creative photography and Photoshop, there is also the very real factor of simply pushing ourselves further. Working harder. Pursuing a theme or project longer. This image presented here is one of my favorite photos of […]