photography

When Accurate Insight Had To Prevail

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The farmer landowner and I were about to part company after a good visit. I had seen firsthand how he was reclaiming land in eastern Tennessee that had been strip mined for coal.

But before we went our separate ways, I got his okay to stay a while longer to make a few pictures of a couple of houses just down the hill on his property. Simple and nearly identical, they appeared to have been at one time homes for tenant farmers. What struck me most, however, was the curtain that with each occasional puff of wind was blowing outside … Read the rest “When Accurate Insight Had To Prevail”

It Was All About A Little Bug

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As illogical as it seemed, there he was, standing next to a tree, his camera on a tripod, its lens focused on an object only a few inches away.

The day before, Ernst Haas who many considered the world’s greatest color photographer, had electrified a group of his contemporaries with his photographs. They weren’t just ordinary images, but rather the same ones that appeared in his book, The Creation. As described in the scriptures of the Holy Bible, his book visually depicted what the earth must have looked like as it was being created.

To get those pictures, however, Ernst … Read the rest “It Was All About A Little Bug”