Sign to Everywhere

This photograph was taken near Rosemary Beach in the Florida Panhandle. You could call it a sign to nowhere or a sign to everywhere. The real problem with this photograph was to get the right lighting on most of the sign arrows so you could read them without losing them in the clouds or in [...]

I discovered a long time ago if you place something in the foreground of your photograph to frame the subject, it will give more depth to the scene and really enhance the total image.
Not only wil it provide a nicer image, it will also help to “frame” the scene as well. When shooting outdoor scenes, [...]

There is an old rule in photography not to center your image in the photograph. There is also another “rule of thirds: which says you should divide your image into thirds horizontally and vertically and then place the center of the attention at one of the intersecting lines. I guess these rules apply to artists [...]

This is one of my favorite photos taken around 1965 of a small boy pushing against a large metal gate on a late fall afternoon. The darkness in the foreground and the dark trees in the background provide almost a 3-dimension to the scene. The late afternoon sun turns the autumn leaves into a white [...]