I couldn’t claim to know what the young Italian woman was thinking any more than I could know what the dog beside her was pondering. The original photo was taken during a 2012 visit to Italy with friends in a rented car. We stopped at a small farm vineyard to sample their wine, where an…
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot…
From what I gather in my reading, photography, much like AI graphics today, was once not considered an art form. When photography first emerged, people struggled to accept that a mechanical device could ever create art. They believed art required skill, time, and most of all, the direct human touch. Since photography could depict the…
