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Rain Trees 

used to be a camera. I remembered images and thought about them as images before I ever thought about making photographs of them or as art. Now I'm a photographer who hasn't used film since the last century.

I took pictures of my friends when I was a teenager, but I rarely thought of those as more than a way of remembering. At college everything changed. Especially after I became an editor, then the editor and then the photographer of the school magazine.

When I got a serious camera — a 4 x 5 Speed Graflex with a Poloroid Back, I became the official University of Dallas school photographer. They paid me for every photo they used. So I was a pro before I was an amateur. I had my first art show at UD and a bunch since.

Summer during college I was a Photojournalist (They asked for a title; that's what I came up with) for The Texas Catholic and later became a staff photographer for the Dallas Times Herald. In the Air Force I taught photography and in Viet Nam I was supposed to an Automatic Processing Machine Operator, except theren't any Augomatic Processing Machines within 600 miles.
 

ee my Prices page, if you'd like me to make photographs for you or your website or publication. Almost nobody ever does that, but I like to keep this blurb in here just in case hell freezes over.

Some of my favorite photographs include

Avenging Pelican Chases Down a Fish-swallowing Cormorant - February 16 2009

J R's Amateur Birder's Journal - updated nearly every week day, this mini-site includes stories and photographs of and about birds at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas, USA, north along the White Rock Trail, Texas' Rio Grande Valley in far South Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, all of which are indexed on the Amateur Birder's Index.

My photographs of the 2008 Winter SolstiCelebration at the Cathedral of Hope in late December 2008 is probably my best-ever coverage of that event, and my last. I think they should be done like any decent pagan ritual, outside and involving fire. More solstices and other metaphysical events and stories are linked from the Meta Index. The 2008 Summer Solstice celebration was nice, too.

My personal DallasArtsRevue Member Page usually includes recent photographs.
 

Game from Above

Piictures from a Reunion are personal and family and beautiful.

Of Whirligigs & Other People's Magic - an experimental travel essay through Colorado, New Mexico and Texas

Personal Magic is kinda an old page now, though I am still fascinated by the subject of personal mementos and pieces of other people's magic.

Birds at the 2005 Texas State Fair

Tanks & Towers - a series from early this century

Six Flags Over October

JR's Windows - windows here and there and beyond

New Mexico on Fire

Angels On Fire - Angel Fire, New Mexico

The Big Easy - New Orleans

My 60th Birthday Party

My Family's Christmas includes many informal photographs.

Jen + Jared's Wedding in late May 2005

Clouds - shot on a low-resolution digital camera but beautiful nonetheless.

Red Stop - Tandy Parking Tram Stop
from when I worked there
from when there was a Tandy in Fort Worth

My latest email address is always on the Contact page.