New Year - Here we go again
1st post of the year, a couple of weeks into the new year (a month actually). We went out for three weeks to Mexico over the holidays and...
Message in a bottle
Phoenix AZ, September 2021. Love, Justice and Family Matters By Amber Louise Hayes We the People, United We Stand, To Serve a Purpose...
Should this be hanged?
If a piece of mine questions the viewer, whether one of my photos is art or not, or whether it should be hanged as art or not, then in my...
A couple of things about intentions and the creative process.
Intentions are good for guidelines and general directions. Other than that, I think its best to follow your experience of the moment. Let...
Creative Process - Notes on Inspiration
Inspiration is often described as a sudden event, an experience connecting seemingly random variables in new or interesting ways. It is...
Scene Overview: of rectangles, lines and triangles.
Phoenix AZ. August 2020. It all started on my way back to the car. I had seen this when I first got out of the car, but for some reason...
Finding Meyerowitz in 2021
Alas the benefit of knowing the masters. The way it was articulated, and pieced together...was like wiping fog off my glasses..
Thinking of coming back to blog
The judgments you’re able to break in your eye, renew your surroundings with possibility. This is a truth about my work I got reminded of...
Arousing the eye
Photography is learning to arouse the eye, at least it is in Intuitive Photography. Discovering pleasure in what is seen, feeling the its...
Round 1?
This post is a little different; at least it feels like that to me. It’s about experimentation and the inevitable mistakes one makes in...