In the Divine Light and My First Book
LIGHTNING OVER CERRO CUATE, NEW MEXICO Photograph by Jory Vander Galien Courtesy of the Photographer Jory Vander Galien is my new assistant. He’s a good photographer and an interesting guy, currently an undergraduate in the photography program at the University of New Mexico. I met up with Jory the other day at a coffee ...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES BOEING 737 AIRCRAFT | Stock Photograph from Southwest Airlines The painterly effect in this photograph was achieved using Alien Skin’s excellent Photoshop/Lightroom plugin Snap Art 3 When we cease to be earth bound, even if only on a Southwest Airlines flight, we go to a place where our minds can run free and ...
Writing Down Your Life
THE RIO CHAMA FROM THE OVERLOOK, LATE AUTUMN, NR. ABIQUIU, NEW MEXICO 1997 Photograph by ©Craig Varjabedian I was contacted by Santa Fean Magazine recently. If you haven’t heard of the Santa Fean, it’s a venerable bi-monthly publication focused on the art, culture, history and lifestyle of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. And if ...
Beauty and the mystical presence behind it – The Daybooks of Edward Weston
THE DAYBOOKS OF EDWARD WESTON-Two Volumes in One Foreword by Beaumont Newhall Edited by Nancy Newhall Published by the Aperture Foundation My interest in the work and life of Edward Weston continues with my re-reading of his daybooks; a diary the photographer kept for over 15 years in which he recorded his struggle to ...
Is this a creative image? An expressive image? You decide . . .
AUTO PARTS SHOP, ATLANTA GEORGIA 1936 Photograph by Walker Evans Is this a creative image? An expressive image? You decide . . . As an artist I think a lot about creativity and the creative process. At Eloquent Light Photography Workshops where I teach, we work hard not only to take our participants to beautiful ...
My Edward Weston Christmas
MY EDWARD WESTON CHRISTMAS, 2011 Photograph by ©Craig Varjabedian SO LET ME BEGIN BY TELLING YOU WHO EDWARD WESTON WAS. Edward Weston is considered one of the masters of 20th century photography. His legacy includes thousands of meticulously composed photographs he made with an 8×10 view camera and superbly printed by contact on silver-gelatin photographic ...
A Photographer’s Prayer
YUCCA AND CLOUDS, WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO 2011 Photograph by ©Craig Varjabedian All Rights Reserved. As I stand in the falling morning mist, I fear that I once again, have failed to capture that which is the true meaning of the vision nature has presented me. I stand and wonder if this, ...