“Competition sparks excellence” ~ Lorne Greene Over the years, I’ve often heard that ‘competition kills creativity’. In my personal experience, I’ve found the opposite is… Read More »Competition Can Make You A Better Photographer
“There is no luck except where there is discipline.” ~ Irish Proverb In my dealings with other photographers, I often hear the word ‘luck’ come up.… Read More »Artists And Artisans: Luck Has Very Little To Do With It
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.” ~ Aristotle Since very early in my photographic journey, I’ve had an interest in… Read More »Aqua Femina: An Ongoing Personal Project (NSFW)
There’s winning and then there’s being honoured. The two are often interchanged although they can mean very different things. Such is the case with the… Read More »High Honours in the PPOC National Loan Collection
Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange … Seriously, somebody pinch me! As a life-long… Read More »Until That Hand Becomes Like Unto a Thing of Iron
Beyond any of the lessons I’ve learned from my mentors and fellow pixel freaks, and all the “quotable quotes” regarding photography, there are a few thoughts… Read More »7 Lessons Learned Over the Past 7 Years in Photography
It has long been a … fantasy … of mine to create the kind of images that fired my imagination as a child. As I… Read More »Jay Terry MPA Now Accredited in Fantasy Illustration
In the long, long ago, before I started smashing pixels, I had a fascination with creating works of fantasy. As a child, I would draw,… Read More »From Pencil and Pen to Pixels: This is Where it All Started
“Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.” ~ Andy Hobsbawm You’re in a rut. Your creativity is gone. You have no time. You’re feeling… Read More »The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Creativity
So, it’s the August long weekend and you have nothing to do … Ok, I know that’s absolutely impossible – with Ribfests happening across Ontario (I’ll… Read More »The Art of: Light Painting