Literally Playing in Collodion
Some of the most interesting artistic results have come to me through playing. The engineer in me wants to use …
Category Archives: Discovery
What I Learned from a Doctor’s Visit
Author, professor, and photographic historian, Dr. Geoffrey Batchen, reviewed my wet plate collodion work during his visit to Savannah College …
He’s got potential
“He’s got potential,” is a compliment. For me, it is a critical comment pointing out my creative failures. It’s non-movement. …
Charting a Flow
In engineering school, I learned that good computer programming begins with a flowchart, a diagram of shapes, figures and lines …
Conjuring the Truth
About ten years ago, Mark Osterman,Photographic Process Historian at George Eastman House, and one half of the Scully and Osterman …
What I Learned From Thomas Edison’s Bite Marks
I was probably 10 or 12 years old when Mom, Dad and I arrived at Ft. Myers, Florida, our vacation …
Zero Drafts and Unfinished Business
Fiction writers can be divided into two major groups: outliners and discovery writers. Outliners know the beginning, middle and end …
The Burden of Perfectionism – Should Practice Make Imperfect?
Striving to make high quality work is good, but wanting it so perfect that the work never gets made is …
Artistic Discovery
This morning, I watched the early light come through the cut glass prisms of our front door and splash against …
Mapping the Edge 