For awhile our good friend and family photographer, Helen Montoya, has been collaborating with my wife, sending her photographs which my wife then takes and uses as inspiration for a fictional work she is currently developing. (Click here to check out her stories). I thought it would be fun to do something similar, but to instead write and hand-letter a short quote to overlay on the image and offer them as HD wallpapers. Helen and I will be collaborating for 30 pieces which we will complete over 30 weeks.

You can keep up with our progress here on this page:

Freedom

Freedom

4/30 in my collaboration with photographer Helen Montoya. “Each person is a reflection of a freedom that belongs to all people.” Honestly, I wanted to play with the imagery of this one to express a thought that is a little abstract. Basically, the idea is that when you get to know someone, the more intimate […]

Sky

Sky

5/30 In my collaboration with photographer Helen Montoya. “Give me the peace of a quiet field and the freedom of a wide open sky.”

Stars

Stars

“If not for the sunset, we’d never see the stars.” This is my first piece in a collaboration with photographer Helen Montoya. When I looked at this picture, I was reminded of the beauty of the sunset. Metaphorically, when the sun “sets” on certain aspects of our lives, it doesn’t seem very beautiful and can […]