Floridays - Juno Beach, Florida

There's something rejuvenating about simply walking along the beach in the early morning. The sunlight filtering through the clouds, the gentle rhythm of the waves, and the salty breeze combine to wash away the cares (and carousing) of the night before and refresh the mind at the start of a new day.

A New Floridays Image

I love serendipity in my photographic explorations - coming across unexpected subjects such as this castaway bench by the Florida Gulf coast. Very often, I will set out, camera in hand, with one idea in mind and then - wham - something presents itself that just begs to be photographed and suddenly all pre-formed ideas are swept aside.

STEM + ART = STEAM

It is time for politicians and educational institutions to realize that creativity is required to solve the complex challenges society faces, and that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) alone are not enough. The flexible thinking, risk taking, and creative problem-solving techniques that are taught through Art and Design are needed for innovation in today's changing world.

I wholeheartedly encourage the support of House Resolution 319: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that adding Art and Design into Federal programs that target the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields encourages innovation and economic growth in the United States.

That's why I signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives on this very subject.

Want to sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/support-stem-to-steam?source=s.em.cp&r_by=6144681

Thanks for supporting the ARTS!

A Conversation with the Artist at the FMoPA

"We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning." ~ Jean Baudrillard, 'Simulacra and Simulations,' 1988

In 1917, under the pseudonym R. Mutt, the French artist and champion of the Dadaist movement, Marcel Duchamp, challenged and shocked the Art World with his submission of 'Fountain' to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit, forever changing the perception of Art. In the latter part of the 20th Century, the Digital Revolution, with its bits and bytes and ones and zeros, forever changed the processes and the media in which art could be created. Photography has been squarely caught in this rapidly evolving landscape of digital capture with an accelerating distancing and removal of the physical contact between the artist and his media of geometric proportions.

As part of the ongoing museum series "The Individual's Opinion - The Photographer's View" at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, "A Conversation with the Artist David Durbak" will be presented on the evening of July 10, 2012, and I will be discussing the impact of digital capture on the art of the hand in photography. I hope you can join me in downtown Tampa, Florida, at FMoPA for an interactive conversation.

New Year, New Series - The Atlantic

It's been a practice of mine to always create new photography on New Year's Day, part of an old family superstition that states whatever you're doing on New Year's Day, you'll be doing for the rest of that year.

This might be a keeper for a new series which I've titled 'The Atlantic' that will be an on-going series for which I'll be creating new imagery for what I imagine to be quite some number of years. I've always loved and been attracted to water; whether the oceans, lakes, rivers, or streams. This series allows me to be creating within that element once again.