To former students and close friends:
These are words I just gave to one of my closest friends, and words that need to resonate within my own life:
Stop worrying about the future. That’s in the future. Focus in the present. That’s all you can do to not waste time. Breathe and go with it. The future will always be in the future. Just be concerned with and focus on what you LOVE and ENJOY doing. That’s really all you can do.
Do not be concerned with keeping up with others around you either, encourage them on their way while you go on your own. Everyone lives their own life, it’s when we get in the business of trying to live through others’ lives that things get messy. It’s not to say to not be of help to others, DO help others when necessary, just don’t dwell in being stagnant in your own life. Always strive for growth.
If you aren’t loving it and growing, then CHANGE. Stop wasting your own time and energy on worrying and dreaming. And DO. Move forward.
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it’s been a minute…
Hello All! It has indeed been a minute since my last post… sadly almost a year!! LOTS have happened since then… here’s a quick summation update:
I moved from living alone in a hipster studio apartment with my little kitten Miles, to living with three other friends ((2 of which I’d be (tentatively) graduating with)) in a fantastic 1920s house in a quiet, hipster historic area. Miles has grown from a kitten to a cat! He’s now days away from being a year old and is about 15 pounds!!!
I started my final year of graduate school and began my thesis project for my MFA. Ultimately it’s documenting the logging (clear cutting and heavy selective cut) of my family’s 177 acre (about 266 professional football fields including end zones) wooded property in West Tn. The whole process started back at the end of September 2010 and is still on-going.
I’ve been delayed by a semester for graduating with my masters, so now no longer will I be graduating with my 2 roommates and having a group show in a few weeks; I’ll be having a solo show at the beginning of December! I’ll be able to completely see my whole thesis project through the end of logging and replanting!!
It’s been almost a full year since I’ve been out of teaching as an adjunct/full-time; and I GREATLY miss it! I’ve been working at a local bakery part-time that specializes in cupcakes (though has MANY other lovely delicacies like pie and cake and cookies and puddings and such, to offer too).
A few other noteables:
I took another photo history class!! 
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I am currently taking an independent study in which I’ve been learning to screen print!! )
I’ve been digitally printing on wood veneer!! )
I’m getting back into shooting more commercial photography sessions again, after a short time away to focus on grad school and my thesis!! )
I’ve started shooting some one-of-a-kind/original images on polaroids (fuji) with my medium format camera with each photo session I do!! )
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Sarah Moon
Patrick Demarchelier
John Florea
Zena Holloway
F. C. Gundlach
Mark Abrahams
Maggie Steber
Vincent Versace
Alan Detrick
Seán Duggan
Dan Burkholder
Norman Mauskopf
Todd Hido
Dominic Chavez
Damion Bergers
Nikki s. Lee
Daniel Milnor
Andy Spyra
Willy Ronis
Jen Gotch
Joe Deal
Larry Louie
Brad Farwell
Miwa Yanagi
Michiko Kon
Vincente Wolfe
F. C. Gundlach
Nickolas Muray
Ola Rindal
Louis Stettner
David Duchemin
Misha Taylor
Roberto Rubalcava
Waldemar Hansson
Max Modén
Marcio Simnch
Amalia Sieber (aka. Amalia Chimera)
Fernanda Montro
Lee Moon Young
Ella May
Ye Rin Mok
Sarah Hermans
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Jill Greenburg
Alex Prager
Maria Carmel
Nobuyoshi Araki
John Davies
Araminta de Clermont
Desiree Dolron
Naoya Hatakeyama
Scarlett Hooft Graafland
Tiina Itoknen
Dodo Jin Ming
Edith Maybin
Byung-Hun Min
Ryuji Miyamoto
Sohei Nishino
Daniele Tamagni
Yoshihiko Ueda
Ofer Wolberger
Andrew Farrington
Bas Princen
Kelli Connell
Wing Young Huie
Sidney Lo
Ian O’Conner
Frankie Galland
Shadi Ghadirian
Roman Espejo Olivo Barbieri
Reed & Rader
Sandrine Castellan
Johnathan Waiter
David Aaron Morett
Red de Leon
Ariel Schlesinger
Tobias Zielony
Brandon Voges
Chris Zedano
Peter Ross
James Worrell
Brian Ulrich
Rune Guneriussen
Hugh Kretschmer
Frank Hülsbömer
David DiMichele
Pieter Hugo
Susan Anderson
Horst A. Friedrichs
Matt Hoyle
Justin Quinnell
Simon Foxton
Lori Nix
Jonah Samson
Grace Weston
Alin Dragulin
Gabriel Jones
Jenny Wicks
Boru O’Brian O’Connell
JeongMee Yoon
Bradley Peters
Michael Lavine
Claire Beckett
Joshua Lutz
Ami Howard
Futoshi Miyagi
Gina Brocker
Kitra Cahana
Rose Marie Cromwell
Adam Kuehl
Greg Mrotek
Irina Rozovsky
Will Steacy
Peter van Agtmael
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Elyse Butler
Yoon S. Byun
Andrew Henderson
Matt Mallams
Jonathan Thrasher
Yijun Liao
Willy Ronis
Karen Radkai
Norman Parkinson
Clifford Coffin
Elene Usdin
Solve Sundsbo
Jack Delano
Tom Palumbo
Carol Guzy
Deanne Fitzmaurice
Stan Grossfeld
David J. Leeson
Marcus Bleasdale
Ron Haviv
Gary Knight
Antonin Kratochvil
Christopher Morris
Franco Pagetti
Stephanie Sinclair
John Stanmeyer
Joachim Ladefoged
John Vink
Alex Webb
Donovan Wylie
Raghu Rai
Marilyn Silverstone
Larry Towell
Lise Sarfati
Mark Power
Jim Goldberg
David Alan Harvey
Guy Le Querrec
Richard Kalvar
Werner Bischof
Rene Burri
Chien-Chi Chang
Thomas Dworzak
Elliott Erwitt
Paul Fusco
Paolo Peelgrin
Hiroji Kubota
Sergio Larrain
Peter Marlow
Nikos Economopoulos
Dennis Stock
Jacob Aue Sobol
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Miguel Rio Branco
Burt Glinn
Philippe Halsman
Abbas
Olivia Arthur
Ian Berry
Stuart Franklin
Trent Parke
Alex Majoli
Josef Koudelka
Harry Gruyaert
Constantine Manos
Inge Morath
Martin Parr
Micha Bar-Am
Bruno Barbey
Jonas Bendiksen
Matt Powell
Abir Abdullah
Andy Levin
Lu Guang
Jane Evelyn Atwood
Milton Rogovin
Ernesto Bazan
Letizia Battaglia
Cristina Garcia Rodero
Brenda Ann Kenneally
Pep Bonet
Kai Wiendenhofer
Maya Goded
Vladimir Syomin
Graciela Iturbide
Dario Mitidieri
Phillip Toledano
Natan Dvir
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A Good Visual Resource
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
This is a great way of looking up photos from LIFE magazine ones that were published and ones that weren’t.
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.”
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Cecil Beaton
Francis Frith
David Bailey
Stephen Alvarez
Uta Barth
Nigel Barker
Matthew Brady
Zana Briski
Lewis Carroll
William Christenberry
Edward S. Curtis
Terence Donovan
Ernst Haas
William Heick
Hiro
Horst P. Horst
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Vincent Laforet
Gustave Le Gray
Sylvia Plachy
Joe Rosenthal
Galen Rowell
August Sander
John Sexton
Sandy Skoglund
William Fox Talbot
Maggie Taylor
James Van Der Zee
Eudora Welty
Minor White
Anne Geddes
Marion Post Wolcott
Carolyn Cole
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In these three lists (again, more to follow) I’ve posted, many of these photographers have had much influence over the way I think about my own photography… and how could they not? Some of these people are heavy-hitters in the world of photography. I have tried to produce a list of photographers from all areas of photography, new and old, some lesser known, and greatly known, and from all parts of the globe.
Again, my intention for these lists are to help refresh the minds of friends of mine and to help in the education of, or to spur on the research of, newer students of the camera. Can’t we all stand to do a bit more visual research to help strengthen and encourage our own work?
Who might be some photographers (listed already, or soon to come) who have influenced the way you SEE?
Some of the MOST influential people in my photography (and life) are lesser known to the greater world of photography: (and I would hope would be the case with many) my former/current photography professors and mentors, friends of mine who I went to school with and sat in classes next to, and even my own students. These people have fueled the fire inside me for continuing to pursue my craft, just as much as the photographers that I have studied in books.
I have been so blessed in the past two years to be a college art photography adjunct professor and program director at my alma matter. I have been so personally and professionally challenged by my own students, again, the main reason for this current blog adventure of mine. I am sad that I did not start this while I was still teaching, though perhaps this will allow me to stay in closer contact with and to encourage those former students of mine. After this final, thesis, year of my MFA in photo, my future students might even be able to benefit from the postings and comments that may lie here within.
I leave you for now with the BEST piece of advice my college photography professor gave to me and my class: relationships are the key to life and photography. It’s not about the camera, it’s about the the person behind and subject(s) in front of the camera that’s key.
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Olaf Breuning
Cindy Sherman
Jeff Wall
Bruce Davidson
David LaChapelle
Garrett Hubbard
Christopher Capozziello
James Edward Bates
MediaStorm
Anacleto Rapping
Edward Weston
Paul Strand
Imogen Cunningham
Edward Steichen
Clarence H. White
Bill Fortney
Jay Maisel
Moose Peterson
Cliff Mautner
Neil Leifer
John Loengard
DuckDuck Collective
Ralph Morse
Felix Nadar
Robert Mapplethorpe
Timothy O’Sullivan
Jacob Riis
Eadweard Muybridge
Andre Kertesz
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Joel Meyerowitz
Bill Brandt
Lisette Model
Mikhael Subotzky
Barbara Probst
John Szarkowski
Nan Goldin
Juergen Teller
Andreas Gursky
Julia Margaret Cameron
Sam Taylor-Wood
Kunie Sugiura
An-My Le
Carrie Mae Weems
Jorge Ribalta
Gertrude Kasebier
Stephen A. Scheer
Susan Meiselas
Tomoko Sawada
Katy Grannan
Garry Winogrand
David Seymour
Eddie Adams
Platon
William Klein
Yuri Kozyrev
Loretta Lux
Bruce Weber
Helmut Newton
Carl Mydans
Herb Ritts
Harry Callahan
Yousef Karsh
Andreas Feininger
Hiroshi Hamaya
Manuel Alvarez-Bravo
Guy Bourdin
Eve Arnold
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Again, in no particular order, I present yet another list of photographers. And still many more to come soon.
Sally Mann
Esther Havens
Gary S. Chapman
Ed Clark
Ansel Adams
Karim Shamshi-Basha
Don Rutledge
James Nachtwey
Keith Ladzinski
Jessica Claire
Jose Villa
Lee Friedlander
Shane Lavalette
Amy Stein
Alec Soth
Amy Elkins
Diane Arbus
Roy DeCarava
Philip Lorca diCorcia
Aaron Siskind
David Hockney
Walker Evans
Lewis Hine
Eugene Atget
Duane Michaels
Shen Wei
Nicholas Nixon
Annette Fournet
WeeGee
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Berenice Abbott
Dorthea Lange
Arnold Newman
Cig Harvey
Elinor Carucci
Michael Deppisch
Andrew Shepherd
Chris Sinclair
Lucia Holm
Sebastiao Salgado
Jerry Uelsmann
Carol Golemboski
Lorna Simpson
Abelardo Morell
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