Still Life Photography
A while back, I had another roundtable discussion at the Film Photographers Association. This time the subject was Still …
Foundations of photography
A Review Of My LensCulture Submission
A while back, I submitted six photographs from my Passing Through Anatolia series to a contest on LensCulture mainly to …
Abstract Photography
Abstract photography seems to be an elusive subject, hard to nail down to a single definition. This may be due to the …
Fine Art Photography Revisited
A while back, I wrote a post, “Fine Art Photography” to convey my thoughts on this elusive subject. Since …
Photography and Language, 3
In the previous post, I briefly, indeed too briefly, touched upon the nature of languages and moved from object-oriented …
Photography and Language, 2
In part 1 of this series, I covered the general idea of language and drew some preliminary parallels between learning a …
Photography and Language, 1
English is my second language. In the beginning, long, long time ago, every student had to choose a foreign language to …
Ways of Seeing Photographs
Look at a photograph, any photograph; look very carefully for a few minutes. Now, put it away and tell a friend what you …
An Imaginary Conversation
We often get too set in our ways and our conversation remains in the same context which can blind us to see the pitfalls …
Seeing
Photography is an analytic art form. We aim our lenses to specific parts of the world around us to pick a frame because, …
Creativity
Yes, You Are Creative Are you creative? Of course, you are, don’t let anybody tell you otherwise! The better …
What Price, What Art
A few days ago, I read in The Guardian that the landscape photographer Peter Lik sold one of his photographs for $6.5 …
Adams’ Foreword
I picked up one of my oldest photography books, Camera And Lens by Ansel Adams, to go through it with a new perspective. …
Street Photography
I lead a roundtable discussion for the Film Photographers Association in November. The topic was “Street …
Looking Back – The Commentary
A while back, in mid-September, I posted a collection of 14 photographs from the old masters and asked anyone to offer …
Looking Back
Photography has a rich, and due to its nature, a well-documented history. I would like to make this post an inverted …
Reading Photographs
I open with the partial cover of Michael Freeman’s book The Photographer’s Eye because its dissection of …
1000s of Photographs
Magazines like Life, Harper’s Bazaar, National Geographic played an important role in the development of …
On Photography
Photography has gone through various stages since William Talbot and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre almost simultaneously …
Artistic Need Not Mean Smeared Colors Only
I am puzzled by the use of the word “artistic”, especially in photography. Many people seem to make a …
Painterly? No, thanks!
Many viewers say “oh, such a painterly photograph” when they like a photo you show to them. They mean that …
If National Geographic photos were judged …
Photo and camera clubs run competitions, it’s a good incentive to make their members to learn the basics of …
Going Up or Coming Down
I would like to talk about a photograph I saw and commented on at a photography site I visit when I have time. I found …
A Short Vent
Photography is a process of selection and abstraction, a series of them at that. First, we put frames around a frameless …