My Photo in J. Mane Gallery's Current Show 📸

Marvelous news: my photo, “Flew the Nest,” won an Honorable Mention place in the current “Extraordinarily Ordinary” show at J. Mane Gallery that started today and runs through August 8th.

Check out the amazing art in several media, including sculpture and paintings, as well as scroll through to see a few of my other shots that I submitted for the theme.

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Ekphrastic Magic Project 📸📓

Super excited to have a poem I wrote in a fantastic project, “Ekphrastic Magic," a photography and poem collaboration, this summer. It is part of an international photo festival in Barcelona, Spain!

Many thanks to the amazingly talented Amy Jasek at Film Shooters Collective for the artistic camaraderie, for her vision and hard work in putting this project together, and for the wonderful invitation to take part.

Learn more about Revela’t and their festival.

Photo Courtesy of Markus Winkler at Unsplash.com

Photo Courtesy of Markus Winkler at Unsplash.com

Great News: Beyond Words Literary Magazine Second Printing

So pleased that this issue of the stellar international literary journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, from last June has now gone into a second printing! 😍📸

I have photography in the June 2020 issue as well as in their current May 2021 issue.

Get your copy/subscription today @beyondwordsmagazine . Also, consider submitting your words or art.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

❄Featured in Snowflakes in a Blizzard ❄

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Pleased to share that my craft book, Photography for Writers, is featured this week in Snowflakes in a Blizzard, a wonderful book blog.

Learn more about the blog as well as check out their other great featured books here and here.

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✨📸 My Photo Chosen for Exhibition 📸✨


Thrilled to announce that my fine-arts photo, "Dad's Razor," was chosen for PhotoPlace Gallery's "The Poetry of the Ordinary" online gallery among the work of so many talented artists.

Check out the whole exhibition (clickety-click on the Online Gallery tab underneath the sofa-and-city-view shot ).

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✨New Interview at: But I Also Have a Day Job 📓

Wonderful news: I was interviewed recently by talented writer and editor Ian Rogers at But I Also Have a Day Job. Our discussion dropped today; it’s a perfect way to open March on an artistic note.

We discussed oodles of writing and career topics alongside a few scoops about my photography.

Check it out, along with numerous other interviews with fantastic authors talking about their creative passions and how to balance writing with making a living!

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My Conceptual Photo in an Exhibit: Nov. 25, 2020-Feb 23, 2021! 🎉📸

I received splendid news today: my conceptual photo was chosen as part of a photography magazine’s online art show, A Show of Hands!

Check out not just my photo, “I had the Radio on,” but also 49 other fabulous photos from shutterbugs all over the globe. An honor to have my work included in such talented company. Don’t Take Pictures gallery show.

The show will run from today through February 23, 2021.

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Photography Published in Molecule :)

Check out the latest amazing issue of Molecule, which features one of my black-and-white film photographs as well as excellent short poems, prose, and even a play. Here’s to issue #3!

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The bottle was a find in my dad’s workshop— it’s glass, with a wonderful heft, and the letters on the bottle are raised/embossed. I love the font and how the bottle’s inscription includes a place on it.