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“You Are Here” is a running (5) five part series discussing a variety of contemporary philosophic questions about photography. If you missed the two entries you’re in luck. See here: You Are Here (Part 1/5): The Ultimate Compliment You Are Here (Part 2/5): Photographers of Influence Enjoy Part 3… Photography, for many photographers, invariably starts out of curiosity and passion, but as of lat

One of the most noteworthy developments in photography since the introduction of digital photography has been low if not noise and grain free images. As digital photography has proliferated and become the norm more and more people have become accustomed to this type of file output. Strangely it wasn’t that long ago that few people noticed this component of film photography. How the times have changed. Photograp

This week I had the chance to read a very eloquently written and thought provoking post challenging the standard view on the “art of seeing”. Is Photography the Opposite of Seeing? by Guy Tal Guy’s thoughts really resonated with me because of recent posts I’ve made on the topic and because I found his approach/perspective to be very creative. Related post: The Power of Photography [tags]photog

Catching up on listening to episodes of the Lens Work podcast this morning I was pleasantly surprised to find out about a thread at APUG discussing “What photographers inspire you“. The reason for my surprise… a few days before this episode of the podcast was released I had posted parallel thoughts in my blog post “You Are Here: Photographers of Influence“. Not that the topic is unique i

What is it about photography that makes it such a powerful medium? Clearly the technological innovation of capturing images has inspired and found numerous commercial applications since it’s invention. What is the X-Factor that has embedded photography into almost every culture across the globe? Taking a second to reread this last question it’s amazing to think of the global impact of photography as an in

“You Are Here” is a running (5) five part series discussing a variety of contemporary philosophic questions about photography. If you missed the first entry you’re in luck. See here: You Are Here (Part 1/5): The Ultimate Compliment Enjoy Part 2… Previously The Ultimate Compliment focused on what is art, but a more dynamic discussion is who do you think is an artist and who has influenced your

This weekend I had the opportunity to watch “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” and I really enjoyed it. Although focused on movies and the film industry the topics of censorship, copyright and new technology are quite relevant to photographers. If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend renting it. One of the first thoughts I had after watching the movie was my realization that I had a love-hate relationsh

The past couple of weeks I’ve been catching up on processing photos from several photo shoots. The side effect has been thinking photographically at the most inappropriate times. Catching myself most of the time I usually only can laugh to myself, but I thought I would compile a short list of these situations to share with others in the event you might also get a chuckle. You’ve been working on photos too