Fox Hole

Young fox at Harlinsdale Farm, Franklin, Tennessee.

Harlinsdale Farm

Franklin, Tennessee

“On the Dunes”

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Colorado

The Shed

Charlotte Avenue at 23rd, Nashville, Tennessee

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The Vanderbilt University Department of Art welcomes to Space 204 an exhibition of compelling photographs by Jeremiah Ariaz. On display from Thursday, Feb. 21, through Thursday, March 14, Tucumcari documents a once thriving and now uncertain New Mexico community. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4 to 6 pm.

The Tucumcari project, four years in the making, seeks to explore a community and way of life influx. Ariaz first visited the vibrant New Mexico small town of Tucumcari by happenstance in 2006, its centennial. He and his camera were at once drawn to the historic buildings and “the way their brilliant colors shone in the western sun light.” Some time later, another trip down that same stretch of highway brought him back to Tucumcari and he was startled by the changes he saw – changes due to both the national economic downturn and local struggles. Ariaz has worked to tell the tale of “an American place caught between a vanishing past and an uncertain future.” Click image for more information about the exhibition.

CNN profiles Brian Hampton, a retired business CEO and self-taught wildlife photographer. Click the image to watch the video.

On December 31, 2012, I concluded my 366 Days project, an attempt to force myself to think visually by committing to produce one new image every day. I missed two days in the first 19 days of January, but managed to miss only four more days the rest of the year. You can see the 360 images here on a Tumblr site. Some include a bit of commentary, most don’t.

Some days I spent hours trying to produce a great image, other days I pretty much iPhoned it in, taking a snapshot. Most of the snapshots I at least processed with an Instagram filter or the filters of SmugMug’s “CameraAwesome” app (which are much better than Instagram’s in my opinion). Some of the images were made with my good camera, on a tripod, while others I shot with my iPhone 4S – although every time, even if it was a quick snapshot, I did try to make it visually interesting.

One of the interesting parts of the project is, sometimes I didn’t post the best photograph I produced that day on the 366 Days site – sometimes because I didn’t realize what I had until later, other times because I hadn’t processed the best images yet and wanted to get something up on the daily photo site.

One example is this image I posted on Dec. 29 – two days before the end of the project. It’s an iPhone shot of an abandoned old house with snow falling around it and dusting the red tin roof.

I realized later that a different image of the same scene, made with my Canon 5D, was the better image of the day. It’s the one at the top of this post. Of all the images I made in 2012, it also is my favorite. Apparently, 360 days of deliberately thinking visually and working at my art paid off.

From MoyModernMet.com: “There’s something incredibly fascinating about viewing the world through upside down reflections, taken through puddles on the street. it’s like we’re seeing the world with a new set of eyes, a perspective most of us are not really used to. It may take a second or two for your eyes to get adjusted to what’s really going on.” The post features amazing images from photographer Yodamanu, aka Manuel Plantin.

“Photographer Ron Henry knew his camera strap was a winner. Now he just needed to get the word out on the cheap,” says Inc. magazine in a profile of BlackRapid, which makes a series of innovative camera straps and accessories. This story combines 3 of my favorite things: photography, entrepreneurism and social media.

Des Moines, New Mexico, October 2012