The quote most often attributed to Winston Churchill goes:

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

In more ways than one, this has been my life for the past few years. I had been doing event consulting work for a local municipality, but in 2023, I began experiencing medical issues that required most of my attention. In both cases, obstacles forced my photography to take a back seat to other issues. I recently started focusing on a black-and-white strategy in both some of my older work and, most recently, people. An artist friend of mine, Margaret Drake, a superb sculptress, needs a headshot for an upcoming exhibition in Wickenburg, AZ. We also took some photos of her latest work, which is a large chuck wagon with a four-horse team for the catalog. Here is some of the work I did for her earlier this year.