I just emailed my autumn newsletter, in which I announced the newest photographs added to my website. These are photographs that I created over the summer, including abstract photographs of fallen leaves, sunflowers and dahlias. If you've been following this blog, you've already ...
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I have added 20 new photographs to my website, including abstract photographs of ice, bark, sunflowers and pine needles. If you've been following this blog, you've seen a lot of these already in my Works in Progress, but some are completely new. I'd ...
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A couple days ago, I was picking up my son from camp. As we walked back to the car, I pointed out to him all of these little leaves that littered the sidewalk. My son stopped, picked one up, and handed it to me....
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Wendy Edsall-Kerwin is a jewelry artist and metalsmith who showcases a different artist each month on her blog. I am honored that she named me her July Artist of the Month. It is always fun and informative to seeing ...
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I've been spending some time this morning revisiting some older photographs of mine. I had stumbled across one from a couple years ago, and my first reaction was "Bleh! I can do better than that!". So I went to the archives, pulled out the file, ...
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Photography can be a very expensive artform. Each gadget and tool often comes with a hefty pricetag. And sometimes, the price is worth it. But other times, whew, it is just overkill. This is especially true with all of the random tools you need in ...
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Paper is a big deal for me. I have always had a love for good paper: how it looks, how it feels, and even how it smells! The right paper can take a good photograph and transform it into something special. One of the joys ...
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One thing about photographers: we love our tools. And we especially love shiny new ones. For the past few years, I've been lucky enough to be on the alpha testing team for one of my favorite tools: Adobe Lightroom. The alpha team are the folks ...
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A couple weeks ago I wrote about some schoolkids who made cardboard video cameras, and got lost in their world seen through their 'lenses'. I wrote that photography "is a purposeful action that impacts and often changes both the person who is doing the ...
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I wanted to share this clip from This American Life, beautifully animated by Chris Ware. It is a story about a class of 5th graders who began making fake video cameras, and how those cameras effected the way they interacted with each other. ...
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