“Today, indeed, you can find urban white artists — people who could not reliably tell a coyote from a german shepherd at a hundred feet — casually incorporating the figure of Coyote the Trickster into their work. A premise common to all such efforts is that power can be borrowed across space and time. It [...]
As the topic relates to my own recent musings, I wanted to recommend a couple of blog posts from fellow photographers offering different and interesting perspectives: Paul Grecian wrote: If a Painting Falls in the Woods… and Carl Donohue followed with: The art of nature Great reading and brain-starters for the day. Thanks to both! [...]
Although this post was written at the request of a friend who wanted a narrative to be used for commercial promotion of Fine Art Photography, in truth it was a long time coming and something I have been pondering for quite a while. It is also a precursor to a larger set of essays aimed [...]
Art, however you choose to define it, is ultimately a product of the human mind. Photographs, before assuming any other meaning, are essentially products of machines. Natural phenomena are manifestations of forces altogether independent of, and oblivious to, the emotions and meanings ascribed to them by human beings. In order for nature photography to enter [...]
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