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, though there were no such machines.
 

See my Prices page, if you'd like me to make photographs for you or your website or publication.

 

Some of my favorite photographs include

J R's Amateur Birder's Journal - updated nearly every week day comprises birds and bird stories from White Rock Lake in Dallas, north along the White Rock Trail, The Rio Grande Valley in far South Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

My photographs of the 14th Annual Winter SolstiCelebration at the Cathedral of Hope Tuesday December 19, 2006 is probably my best-ever coverage of that event. More solstices and other metaphysical events and stories.

My personal DallasArtsRevue Member Page includes recent photographs.

Personal Magic is a page in the works. I need to go back and find some of the images I've shot over the years of other people's magic.

J R's New White Rock Lake Journal, which is still on DallasArtsRevue.com and Best Birds

J R's New Camera — Climbing a Steep Learning Curve, a daily journal, includes really good and really bad photographs as I learned how to use my new Nikon D200 dSLR camera, glorying in my early succeses and learning from the many mistakes.

Birds at the 2005 Texas State Fair

Tanks & Towers - a series from early this century

Six Flags Over October

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

JR's Windows - windows here and there and beyond

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

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