Icons Don’t Matter
Photographic icons don't matter, or shouldn't matter much, to us in creating our most creative and artistic work. This thought came to me last night and stuck with me to this morning, so I thought [ read more ... ]
Photographic icons don't matter, or shouldn't matter much, to us in creating our most creative and artistic work. This thought came to me last night and stuck with me to this morning, so I thought [ read more ... ]
Are you going to compile a collection of the "best of 2024" images that you've taken this year? I hope that you do because I think there can be a lot of value in the [ read more ... ]
Applying care and consideration to your photographs before, during and after capturing the image will improve your image dramatically and really show through to anyone who views your images. I view thousands of images a [ read more ... ]
I've spent some time recently pondering the concept of knowledge versus wisdom and how that might apply to photography, and secondarily to life. I'm not sure what triggered this train of thought but once it [ read more ... ]
I just returned from my overseas workshop and I wanted to share a couple of quick insights from Greenland that came to me as we sailed the arctic fjords on a wooden schooner along the [ read more ... ]
Do you find yourself playing favorites with your camera gear or locations? Do you keep going back to a piece of gear, just for the sheer joy of using it? Or, return again and again [ read more ... ]
As I'm packing up to leave for the Olympic National Park, an idea popped in to my head and the best way to describe it would be to call it friendly editing and it's something [ read more ... ]
Do you ever strive to create an emotional connection with your images to a viewer? Are you successful at it when (if) you do try? In this post I wanted to share a few thoughts [ read more ... ]
When you come home from a photo shoot and want to work on your images, do you create a processing recipe for images you work on? A list of all the adjustments you'd like to [ read more ... ]
Have you ever pondered the questions, what is the subject? I ask this question a lot of my attendees when reviewing images and it's not quite clear what the photo is about. But today, I'm [ read more ... ]