There used to be a saying in film photography – “When in doubt, shoot.”

Art is one of the disciplines that is free to do what it needs to do. True art is a challenge to reason and common senselessness. Its task is to question the status-quo.

While much of the practice of photography relies on the capabilities of the photographer, it also relies on serendipity and ones knowledge of the subject.

In designing anything, usability is what you try to incorporate into the thing being designed. Functionality is always more important than what a product looks like.

It isn’t about the camera, the lens, or the technique you use. It has nothing to do with shooting like another photographer, copying a style, or being one of them.

A photograph is a self-portrait that reflects your concepts and opinions of the world to others.

I was recently given the beautiful Hasselblad above by my dear friend,…… American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War: Carole Gallagher, a startling look at the effects of atomic fallout from the nuclear testing in the American West on those people who lived downwind. Carole’s beautiful black and white photographs taken of the victims and families who were affected by radioactive contamination are a dramatic account of their involuntary participation in the atomic age.

In my mind, truth should be the goal of every image and the understanding of that truth, the prize.

It seems to me that the only way that art will ever be able to do its job is if everyone of us are on the same page.

Anamorphic images are image perspectives that have been altered either to accommodate a surface, for an illusionary effect, or for some other reason.