Photographic Seeing is a ZEN Experience
Zen in the Art of Photography is one of the best little photo books ever! For years, it has been my guide to image making and perhaps more importantly, to seeing.
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A Matter of Perspective – Seeing what is there to see
It is easy to make images of the new, the exotic and the distant. Things that are close and familiar are much harder to see.
The inventor of the digital camera
Long before DSLRs, Micro 4/3rds, Photoshop, or HDR…Steve Sasson invented the digital camera.
Easy Paper Lens Hood / Sun Shade
Photographic solutions can be mindlessly simple. Recently, I borrowed a beautiful 500 mm Mirror lens from a friend. For its type, the lens takes excellent images. However, there is…
Breaking the Rules – Discovery
The skill of photography is not in adhering to the rules but rather finding favorable ways to break them that allow for new thought, new direction, and a new and meaningful utterance.
Inspiration – Our Disregard for Life
I search across the web for images, art, video and articles which might offer inspiration. Inspiration for me, comes from seeing something which needs attention. It helps me to see…
The World Has No FOCAL POINT – It simply exists.
Photography as we are accustomed, does not represent the full factuality of the real world. This is in part due to optical restrictions of both the lens of a…
The Painter and HDR
I have probably learned as much about photography through looking at paintings as I have learned from photography.
Every photograph is a self-portrait.
This quote has less to do with the landscape and more to do with really seeing anything. In the act of photographing, we are showing ourselves to the world. We are sharing what we see and what we care about.