This morning I started work on some new photographs. This is the first time in months that I've worked on anything new, and it feels good. The past few months have kept me very busy. A good kind of busy, getting things done that needed ...
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Well, whaddya know. I won third place in the nature/other category of the Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris competition for my Artifacts of Nature series.
This is pretty cool, because Px3 is one of ...
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In my last post, Angela was curious about how I carefully refine and polish the photographs I take, as opposed to just trying to capture the 'decisive moment' in the camera. While I plan to write more about this, I stumbled across an article ...
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I have been working diligently for the past month on improving my website, making sure that all of the photographs I show on my site are ones I am proud of. I started doing this when an art buyer inquired about one of my photos, ...
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I wanted to show an alterate version of the photograph of the Japanese maple leaf I had in my last post. This version shares the same balance between colors, and between sharp and soft focus. But in this one, the sharpness falls on the ...
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I love it when I revisit an old photograph, and suddenly I see how to make it better. It always amazes me when this happens. A photograph that I've printed tons of times, and have been very happy with, will suddenly reveal new depths, new ...
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Once again I have found myself spending an inordinate amount of time seeking out the perfect shade of brown. The brown of dried leaves, of old wood, of worn out shoe leather. The brown I see when I close my ...
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It's another new year. To borrow the wisdom of Douglas Adams: I love new years, I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. It has been an eventful year, and it feels like it is on the cusp of even more. ...
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In science fiction, whenever a character develops the ability to hear other people's thoughts (like Parkman in the show Heroes), they go through an intense struggle to control their gift. If their telepathy is left unchecked, outside thoughts constantly flood in from all around, ...
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What makes you hungry to make art? What conditions do you need to to be in to find enough fuel to fire your creativity? In his blog today, Wil Wheaton describes a friend of his who quit his well-paying job to start acting:
...he ...
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