Following a recent question, today we're going to explore how we see and how we perceive a scene, in relation to the focal length numbers we are familiar with from our camera lenses. Before we start, I'd like to apologize for skipping last week's episode. I'm still...
Today I'm going to share my thoughts on what makes a photograph or a print "fine art". This is something that I've seen various takes on, and frankly, nothing I've read over the years really resonates with me personally, for reasons that I'll explain. The impetus for...
As creative artists and sometimes small business owners, it's vitally important to continue to learn and grow on many levels, but I urge you to not get so caught up in technical details that you become paralyzed in the field through overthinking every...
On July 8 this year, almost three weeks after returning from Namibia, I cleaned my boots. So what? I can almost hear you saying, but to me, this is always a relatively deep, thought provoking, experience, which I'd like to explain today. When I started hiking in the...
Some people arrive at a location with preconceptions and their sole intent is to make their copy of other peoples' photographs that they've already seen. Today I'm going to discuss how and why I believe we should avoid being a collector, and shoot from our own...
Having shared my thought process and selection workflow last week, today I share my personal top ten photographs from 2016. Since I started doing this in 2007 it has become a yearly tradition and although it's an invaluable learning experience in itself, over the...
This week I share an awesome conversation with my friend Don Komarechka about his most recent crazy scientist photography, as he sinks his teeth into full-spectrum, infrared and ultraviolet photography, as well as stereoscopic 3D macro photography. As Don himself said...
Minimalism—I almost made the title of this post just "Minimalism" but that's a little bit open to interpretation, as it has a place in all visual arts, design, architecture and music, as well as a way of life in some cases. So, I added "in Photography" and this is...
Creativity is something that most people struggle with, and for good or bad, technology has changed everything in recent decades, and this is adding to the problem for some but is incredibly enabling at the same time. The digital age has created its own unique...
Creativity is something that most people struggle with, and for good or bad, technology has changed everything in recent decades, and this is adding to the problem for some. Photography was transformed at the start of this millennium as digital cameras became...
This week I'm going to share the 2015 top ten photographs that we edited down to last week, with a little information about each image. There is a lot to be learned about our images from this exercise, so this is something that I like to do each year. If you didn't...
As has been my tradition since 2007, I have taken some time over the past week to reflect on the images I have made during 2015, and worked through the process of editing down my favorites to just 10 images. Today I'm going to share my thoughts on the process, as I...