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If you love to travel and you haven’t really decided what you want to do when you grow up, here’s one suggestion: Learn photography. You don’t even have to develop an identifiable style. There will always be a demand for pretty landscapes and endangered animals. Last summer, Dallas photographer Tom Maddrey took a 12,000-mile, 35-day road trip from Dallas to Alaska and got to write off the whole thing as a work expense. Looking through the results posted on his gallery’s Web site, it’s hard to fully appreciate the shots. They all feature the classic subjects of the motivational poster: bald eagles, a sounding hunchback whale, glaciers and rippling water. The vibrant colors and bright lighting are as crisp and professional as any stock photograph. Surely they’ll be more impressive in the gallery, where prints will be blown up as large as 40-by-60 inches—you couldn’t thumbtack that sucker to a cubicle wall. At that size, they belong in the CEO’s waiting room. His exhibition There and Back: A Photographer’s Journey to Alaska opens 7 p.m. Friday at the Blue Square Art Gallery, 3023 Commerce St. in Dallas. Call 214-749-4036 for appointments.
Jan. 25-March 20, 2008
