This is Spencer the Studio Dog here wishing everyone a very merry everything! Just wanted to let you know that mom and all our studio staff are turning off the lights and locking the doors for a few days. They have worked hard all year and are looking forward to a...
In this photo, I’m holding one of the very first prints I ever developed in a darkroom. I’d been shooting film for years at that point, but had always processed my negatives and had them printed through a local lab. Not until graduate school, when my...
When I first began, I sold only fine art prints of my photography under my name: Michelle K. Ciarlo-Hayes (my entire name is Michelle Katharine Mary Ciarlo-Hayes, but that kind of signature wouldn’t fit on anything smaller than a mural, so…I jettisoned a...
“Sunset Water” We’re a morning beach family: there’s something lovely about arriving at the water’s edge in time to watch the seagulls breakfast and the morning sun sparkle on the waves. Now that the boys are old enough to stay up later on summer evenings,...
I love the little white fish in the midst of all the orange. I love that none of the other fish seem to care about, or even notice, the difference as they silently make their way past my camera lens. I could watch fish swim for hours: the tank in my childhood living...
