I have been thinking about photography and memory since I wrote the blog about it. Maybe I always have. Here’s a another story touching on those subjects. It introduces forgetting, too, though I do not think that word is ever used. Yes, photography is spiritual stuff. Fragments of a Life: A Curbside Mystery Thank you, […]

I had not planned to write this blog until I woke up this morning, in pain, again. A lot of pain. I did not quite have to use my hands to pick my head up, but it was close. I’ve been there before, and I never want to go there again. I probably will, but […]

I found it. I found the first picture I took with my first camera. I was looking for it to accompany and earlier blog post whose wanderings of thought included memory. In the weeks since then, memory and photography have been much on my mind. My dear friend and mentor, Blaine Pennington shared a link […]

This week, it’s back to the practical talk on photo skills and exercises. Possibly my favorite exercise was the one given to me originally by a photography teacher in college. Having quit the world-renowned film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, because they would not let me take a still photo course, I’d […]

The lovely David DuChemin has another free gift for us today, his book A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created.  You can even bundle it with his book about making and money, How to Feed a Starving Artist, and save 20% off the one title, making it $8 for both. Perfect – that bundle was on […]

I had the great pleasure this week to be a guest on the one hour radio program, Myth America. It was on WIOX radio, out of upstate New York. It is not archived to stream, but when I get a copy, I will share it here. I met host Leigh Melander on a forum years […]

    The great American photographer W. Eugene Smith is one of my heroes. Brilliant, totally committed, revolutionary, difficult, and complex: he is sometimes credited as the father of the photo essay. In 2010, American Photo Magazine published a previously unknown written essay by him. Two quotes stood out to me then, and I rediscovered […]

The resources I use most for my on-going photographic education have changed over the years. I’m going to share with you the three I go to the most right now, and, in return, I’d like to know what places feed your mind and your creativity. Digital Photography Review was the first, best gold standard for […]

In my first photographic technique tip, I shared with you the handy exposure elements chart that had helped me bring together my understanding of how the basic variables of exposure work together to effect your picture: f-stop (and its effect on depth of field), shutter speed (and its effect on motion), and ISO (with its […]