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Foundations

Articles on photographic thought, genres, satire

Foundations of photography

LensCulture Portrait Awards 2023 entry

LensCulture Review 4, The Last One

April 15, 2024

Until recently, I enjoyed visiting the LensCulture site and exploring the new collections, writings, and other …

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Panagia Isodion - Istanbul - A. Cemal Ekin

Architectural Photography – 2

January 23, 2019

As this photograph zooms in on the details of the lead photograph in the previous one, our attention will get closer to …

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Pomogranate Rising

Still Life Photography

March 5, 2018

A while back, I had another roundtable discussion at the Film Photographers Association. This time the subject was Still …

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Somewhere In Anatolia, 5

A Review Of My LensCulture Submission

January 30, 2018

A while back, I submitted six photographs from my Passing Through Anatolia series to a contest on LensCulture mainly to …

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Abstraction by random movement

Abstract Photography

March 16, 2017

Abstract photography seems to be an elusive subject, hard to nail down with a single definition. This may be due to the …

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Ansel Adams - Study of Rock Formations

Fine Art Photography Revisited

December 9, 2016

A while back, I wrote a post, “Fine Art Photography” to convey my thoughts on this elusive subject. Since …

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Fortnum & Mason

Photography and Language, 3

August 31, 2015

In the previous post, I briefly, indeed too briefly, touched upon the nature of languages and moved from object-oriented …

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Communication Model

Photography and Language, 2

August 28, 2015

In part 1  of this series, I covered the general idea of language and drew some preliminary parallels between …

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Language of Photography

Photography and Language, 1

August 25, 2015

English is my second language. In the beginning, a long, long time ago, every student had to choose a foreign language …

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Seeing Photographs

Ways of Seeing Photographs

April 13, 2015

Seeing Begins With Looking Look at a photograph, any photograph; look very carefully for a few minutes. Now, put it away …

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Gauguin Creative Work

An Imaginary Conversation

March 30, 2015

We often get too set in our ways, and our conversation remains in the same context that can blind us to seeing the …

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LInes formed on the wall of a ferry

Seeing

March 15, 2015

Photography is an analytic art form. We aim our lenses to specific parts of the world around us to pick a frame because, …

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