I'm Gary Thaxton and publisher of this blog. My age is 62, married to my soul mate forever, since September 1979, and I have been obsessed with photographic art. This last bit of statement has tested my marriage, but love is a continual process of stress and renewal.We have managed and have three children to sweeten or bless, or both, our experience together.
The photographs on this site are my life's work starting in 1974. I was interested in photography before this, but not the creative direction it was to take me.
I attended a two year technical college in NC to obtain the knowledge I would need to fully produce a photograph from lens to paper. The person who inspired me toward the artistic side of photography was not a photography instructor, but an art history instructor named Dwight Holland. His demeanor in class as a teacher was more of a inspiring mentor, and for this I am thankful.
The second year of school was the time in my life that define me as a human being. I became involved with a unique group of people. Two became very close friends and one friend became my brother. My world before 1975 was so different in contrast to the life I began to transmute to.
Photography became a visionary dream consuming my life into a meditative addiction and craving in the journey for my perfect image. The images displayed here in this photographic blog represents my attempts for the perfect meditative-photographic moment.
This pursuit has produced questions in my soul. Are these images worthy? Can each single image stand alone in context to my experienced moment? Where is that exact photographic moment in my life now, and did it ever exist at all? Paradox! Questions go on and on, but the path of questions has rewards in the realization these moments have been my life. Yes, I realize they are minute moments in comparison to the whole of my existence. My pursuit of the perfect photograph has been life fulfilling and each contain the warmth of my creative being, even if I am the only one who can see them. It is as it should be. They are me and there are no answers. Only understanding my purpose and the self fulfilling accomplishments of what is my life. It contains so many variances. I've tried not to get lost, but I do tend to ramble in words and thought.
Come in and browse. I hope the warmth of my moments can be conveyed into the warmth of you.
The photographs on this site are my life's work starting in 1974. I was interested in photography before this, but not the creative direction it was to take me.
I attended a two year technical college in NC to obtain the knowledge I would need to fully produce a photograph from lens to paper. The person who inspired me toward the artistic side of photography was not a photography instructor, but an art history instructor named Dwight Holland. His demeanor in class as a teacher was more of a inspiring mentor, and for this I am thankful.
The second year of school was the time in my life that define me as a human being. I became involved with a unique group of people. Two became very close friends and one friend became my brother. My world before 1975 was so different in contrast to the life I began to transmute to.
Photography became a visionary dream consuming my life into a meditative addiction and craving in the journey for my perfect image. The images displayed here in this photographic blog represents my attempts for the perfect meditative-photographic moment.
This pursuit has produced questions in my soul. Are these images worthy? Can each single image stand alone in context to my experienced moment? Where is that exact photographic moment in my life now, and did it ever exist at all? Paradox! Questions go on and on, but the path of questions has rewards in the realization these moments have been my life. Yes, I realize they are minute moments in comparison to the whole of my existence. My pursuit of the perfect photograph has been life fulfilling and each contain the warmth of my creative being, even if I am the only one who can see them. It is as it should be. They are me and there are no answers. Only understanding my purpose and the self fulfilling accomplishments of what is my life. It contains so many variances. I've tried not to get lost, but I do tend to ramble in words and thought.
Come in and browse. I hope the warmth of my moments can be conveyed into the warmth of you.
