Thanks to guest judges Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou for picking a winner for this week’s theme! Please join me in congratulating Anne Black for her winning entry: Darwin and Sam did note that while many wonderful entries were submitted, some did not match this week’s theme and were therefore disqualified. Please read the contest [...]
Honesty and morality are not qualities of images but rather of people. They are neither inherent in nor contradicted by any given tool or technique. Honesty comes into play not in how the work was created, but in how it is presented.
Thanks to guest judge Jim Erhardt, publisher of Nature Photographers Network for taking on the difficult task of selecting a winner for this week’s theme! This week’s winner is: David Chauvin. David’ winning image: Jim had this to say about this week’s entries: “There were many excellent photos entered in the Simplicity contest, many of [...]
Thanks to guest judge Floris van Breugel for deciding the winner of Week 3 of the 10 Weeks of Creativity Contest. Without further ado, this week’s winner is: Chris Martin. Chris’ winning image: For his winning entry, Chris will receive an original signed print, a free 1-year membership to Nature Photographer’s Network, and a $20 [...]
A photograph is the product of a machine. Art is a product of a conscious, creative mind. Photography in itself is not an art. It is the technical process of recording reflected light through various mechanical and optical means. The art, if indeed it is such, is not in photography but rather in its creative [...]
I received another incredible collection of great submissions for Week 2 of the 10 Weeks of Creativity Contest and, after much contemplation I am proud to announce the winner: Brent Wellander Brent’s winning image: For his winning entry, Brent will receive an original signed print, a free 1-year membership to Nature Photographer’s Network, and a [...]
“Great photographers are a combination of wizard and idiot savant. They do what they do without truly understanding how, then make up a lot of convoluted theory to cover up their own ignorance of who and what they really are. Because of the self-doubt that nags photographers, photography’s power as an art goes on being [...]
The primary concern of creative photography is the production of photographic art. As such, it is clearly distinguished from other uses of photographic tools. As is the case with all art, photographic art is subject only to the rules and whims the artist chooses to impose upon themselves in the expression of their own message [...]
Creative photography is the application of photographic tools in the realization of creative ideas through images. Where a photographic image, barring all other qualifications, is a product of a machine; the creative photographic image is a product of the human mind.
Creativity should not be confused with aesthetics, or with craftsmanship. Neither should it be confused with originality, which in truth is a by-product of the creative process rather than its purpose.
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