Hello My Dear Friend, I’m writing today with a topic of inspiration I stumbled across yesterday but due to a full schedule I was not able to spill my thoughts on the matter until now. I’m hoping the delay has not caused my thoughts on the matter to go stale so forgive me if the passion does not flow as strong from my pen this morning. It all started with one word, decorative.  The woman said it in reference to fine art and it triggered the emergency break on my reading. I sun

My Dear Friend, I kept my previous correspondence short but as I mentioned, my latest encounter with a photographic hero inspired a few thoughts which I would like to unravel with you. Here I wish to unpack a rather lengthy instructive quote in which Minor is described as saying, “Venture into the landscape without expectations. Let your subject find you…Wait for your presence to be acknowledged. Don’t try to make a photograph, but let your intuition indicate the right moment

Musing Correspondence — 11/17/2025 My Dear Friend, I came across the name again, Minor White, this time in a book about mindful photography. To no surprise the section inspired numerous ideas for expansion of which I will address in future letters to keep this brief. While White was the primary subject for the section the focus quickly shifted to a student of his that attended one of his workshops. In describing the experience I couldn’t help but long for the impossible oppor

My Dear Friend, A trail of breadcrumbs led me to this quote in a letter written by Minor White “the photograph is an external record of inward growth”. While written by Minor the quote seems to be a summary of Edward Weston’s philosophy on photography. I could find no direct quotation to either man outside of the letter from which I extracted it so I’m going to correlate it to both of these photographic masters from hence forth as it is the perfect summation of my photograph