Some readers may recall that I am easily amused by sentences starting with the words “photography is all about.” Earlier today I found one such proclamation decreeing that photography is “all about composition.” Nonsense, I thought, but curiosity got the better of me and I Googled it. To my horror, the magical all-knowing algorithm found [...]
Many of the thoughts in this essay were inspired by a talk I recently gave at the Moab Photo Symposium. The presentation will be made available online in the next few weeks, for anyone interested. ~~~ “Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not [...]
Many of the thoughts in this essay were inspired by a talk I recently gave at the Moab Photo Symposium. The presentation will be made available online in the next few weeks, for anyone interested. ~~~ “… even if a person is lucky enough to experience a useful epiphany, that new idea is rarely the [...]
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. –Georgia O’Keeffe As one who enjoys both writing and creating visual art, I often think of myself as communicating in different languages. It’s no surprise that the term “a picture is [...]
“Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?” –Henri Cartier-Bresson Discussions of photographic composition almost invariably preach for simplification. Elements in the frame that do not directly contribute to the aesthetic appeal of an image [...]
At long last, my new eBook “Creative Landscape Photography” is now available for purchase! As some of you may be able to attest, the majority of instructional photography books focus on camera operation and are aimed towards newcomers to the practice of photography. This eBook picks up where others leave off and is aimed at [...]
My article “The ABCs of Composition” is featured in the June, 2010 edition of PopPhoto Magazine.
It is a long standing tradition in photography that the person who clicks the shutter button gets to claim all accolades for the resulting image, whether it is their own original concept and composition or a blatant copy of someone else’s. Chalk it up to maturity of each art form, but in music there’s a [...]
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