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 a significant 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 …