I have been photographing for a quarter century and more, starting when I borrowed my Dad’s Pentax K1000 in my late teens. I still have that camera, and after a long list of cheap point-and-shoots, I went back to it as early as 2003. I shot for a while and then succumbed to shooting on a very portable Sony point-and-shoot digital. In 2015, I went back to the Pentax for good.
In 2017 I got serious with fine art photography. I shot all the time, and checked out every book on photographers I could from the public library: Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Sally Mann, and more.
Since then, I have photographed on numerous cameras. I settled on a 4x5 Sinar F2, a Pentax 6x7, my father’s Pentax K1000, a 1950’s Ansco Super Speedex 4.5, and of course, my iPhone 7.
I’ll post random photos here, things I’ve been working on, fleeting glimpses, old favorites.
I work as a freelance writer, mostly focusing on creative nonfiction. I have, as well, published poetry throughout my life. Below are links to recent work.
Nonfiction
Kentucky Monthly: “Log & Stone Getaway” (December 2022)
LEO Weekly: “Snowed-In at Kentucky’s Pine Mountain” (January 2022)
LEO Weekly: “The Owls” (May 2021)
LEO Weekly: “In Geologic Time” (March 2021)
LEO Weekly: “An Invitation for This Time” (April 2020)
Louisville Magazine: “Bird by Bird” (February 2020)
The Ruckus: “Speaking: Zed Saeed” (January 2020)
LEO Weekly: “In the Company of Birds” (July 2019)
Sierra: “Appalachia Off the AT” (March/April 2019)
Louisville Magazine: “The Art of Shooting on Film” (January 2019)
LEO Weekly: “The Good River” (October 2018)
Louisville Magazine: “The Duck Hunt” (December 2017)
LEO Weekly: “Ghosts of the City” (June 2017)
Kenyon Review: “Paint It Plain as Dirt” (April 2017)
Nowhere Magazine: “The Ravens of Pine Mountain” (January 2017)
Kentucky Monthly: “Field Work” (August 2014)
LEO Weekly: “Gross Income” (May 2014)
Kentucky Monthly: “The Blue Raven” (April 2014)
Kentucky Monthly: “True Wilderness” (March 2014)
Chronicle of Higher Education: “Assignment: Research Your Adjunct Teachers” (February 2014)
Kenyon Review: “No Greater Darkness” (September 2013)
Kentucky Monthly: “A Long Tradition” (February 2013)
Kentucky Monthly: “Trail Mix” (October 2012)
Selected Poetry
Green Mountains Review: “The Thing Itself and Not the Myth” and “Broken Country”
TYPO: “Sugarhouse”
The Adroit Journal: “The History of Snow”
The second edition of my guidebook, Hiking Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, is available from Menasha Ridge Press, REI, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.