or How to Avoid Boring the Audience with Your Wide Angle Lens Photography is a surprisingly complex visual puzzle. In addition to using a lot of numbers, it is rife with its own jargon: the inverse square law, the exposure triangle, circles of confusion, lighting ratios, the rule of thirds, and on and on. One thing…

I worked a baseball game in Asher, Oklahoma, yesterday, which is about 28 miles from our home in Byng. The light was nice and it was quite warm out. My route to the game took me past Konawa’s Violet Cemetery, noted for supposedly having a tombstone in it with the inscription, “Killed by Human Wolves.”…

One thing I tell my students is something Bill Dixon, chief photographer at the Lawton Constitution, told me in May 1982: fill up the frame. There are a lot of good reasons to fill up the frame. In 1982, you filled up the frame so you wouldn’t have to enlarge (“blow up”) the useful area…

One thing I love to photograph is our twelve acre batch of bucolic splendor in southeastern Oklahoma. In the spring and summer it is green and full of flowers, in the fall the skies are beautiful, and winter sometimes brings snow and ice that make grand vistas. In all seasons, though, as I walk all…