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. …
Foundations
Articles on photographic thought, genres, satire
Street Photography
I had a roundtable discussion for the Film Photographers Association in November. The topic was “Street …
Looking Back – The Reading of Photographs
Looking is easy, but … A while back, in mid-September, I posted a collection of 14 photographs from the old …
Looking Back
Photography has a rich, and due to its nature, 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
Look at 1000s of photographs and store them in memory. Later when you see in the viewfinder something reminding you of a …
On Photography
Since William Talbot and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre almost simultaneously announced their discovery around 1839, …
Artistic Need Not Mean Smeared Colors Only
I am puzzled by the use of the word “artistic,” specifically in photography. Many people seem to make a …
Painterly? No, thanks!
Painterly is not a Compliment for Photography Many viewers say “oh, such a painterly photograph” when they …
If National Geographic photos were judged …
Photo and camera clubs run competitions, it’s a good incentive to make their members learn the basics of …
Going Up or Coming Down
What is the difference between going up or coming down? I would like to talk about a photograph I saw and commented on …
A Short Vent
Photography is a process of selection and abstraction, a series of them at that. First, we put frames around a frameless …