The quest for excellence is the underlying motivation of any serious artist.

How can I improve what I do?  It sometimes drives me mad with frustration.  And, at times, that question makes me stop what I am doing, backing away, if you will, because I don’t know what to do next.

Yet, images that I have done, still haunt me.

Reflections at Second Beach

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When I look at the photograph,  I don’t know how I might have done it better. Sure, there are many who will view it and suggest this or that, but for me, well, I just don’t know what else I could have done under the circumstances and the light that was there before me.

Portrait of an Eagle as an Old Man

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Here I am with an Eagle just a few feet away, and when I look at the capture I think back and try to remember the circumstances of the work and wonder still if I could have done it better.

The Approaching Storm

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Sometimes light works for us in unexpected ways.  One never knows what the day will bring.  Perhaps it is about just being there.  The art flows from the circumstance.

Christmas Hawk

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I have been away from the field for too long, it is time to take a rest from this computer and go experience the dawn.

How can I improve?  I simply don’t know how.  Perhaps somewhere out there, on some remote beach or hill, the ideas will flow and I will know.

And that is the substance of it.  It is not the art, it is the living that matters.  It is from the living that the spontaneity occurs.  We learn from experience, and we succeed by trying again and again.