Welcome!

I’ve now joined the league of people calling themselves bloggers. I promised myself that I would never become one of “those people” but I was having a hard time keeping my website updated with current happenings_ a blog seemed the logical solution. I’m really looking forward to keeping a diary of sorts.

The path of an artist can be one fraught with emotional highs and lows. Many times I’ve found myself simultaneously wallowing in conceit and self-doubt. I feel like I am constantly walking the line between self-expression and marketability_ riding the fence I guess you would say. I hope these writings can give you some insight into my thought processes. I also hope that these writings will keep me from completely losing my sanity.

I enter a lot of juried competitions/exhibitions. My work gets accepted to a lot of those competitions, but I also recieve a lot of rejections. This can be challenging, and these type of rejections fuel the self-doubt that I spoke about earlier. At times, it may seem like I hate the critics and the business end of this thing that I call art_ and at times I do. However, I understand the necessity of a critique and the valuable benefits that agents and galleries offer the emerging artist. I understand that the struggle (I optimistically refer to it as a journey) is one of the most powerul influences on the life and work of an artist.

I love what I do. The art of photography is changing drastically and has done so for the last century. We live in an age when just about everybody carries a camera(cell phone) in their pocket. It’s an exciting time to be a photographer and a digital artist. Some photographers see these new technologies as an obstacle_they believe these advancements will remove any trace of humanity from what we do. I adamantly disagree. With each of these technological advancements I see more opportunities for self expression_ more opportunities to take the art of photography beyond documentation.

This worked! I’m excited to be an artist! Please check back regularly!

Dan

“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I have no doubt that the lion belongs with it, even if he cannot reveal himself all at once. We see him only the way a louse that sits upon him would.” – Albert Einstein