Notes to Myself — For Photography and Living — John Neel
… if we just pause and look all around us we can find things in our everyday existence that are truly beautiful.
Category Archives: Insight
Normality
“When most look for something that seems abnormal, I look for normality. Normality to me is odd in itself. As a photographer, I’m interested in how people and…
The IMAGE is What Matters
“The image is what matters. How it gets to be what it is, might be called photography…..
Finding Light
“Photography is not found in the camera you use, what you know about…Photoshop, Lightroom…camera…
Beauty and the Beast – Photography in the Modern World
Life has changed photography and art. It always has. Art is all about our lives and our existence. It is a look at where we are as humans in any period of time we are in.
Toy and Simple Camera Use
The use of a toy camera to make an image, is not to produce shallowness, but rather … The simplicity of a tool should not impair the vision. Photography and the simple camera.
Intelligence in Minimalism
Photographic minimalism is supposed to enlighten. Abstraction for the sake of abstraction is not the point. Its purpose is to trigger discovery.
In Photography… Framing Is Everything
A photograph is a kind of language. It is supposed to help us see the world. It should be used to add to what we know.
The picturesque landscape – A thing of the past?
Pristine landscape? ………picturesque landscape?……Fukushima, Chernobyl, all of the atomic bomb testing i……oil spills, over fishing, deforestation, Monsanto, mining, wars, carbon emissions, climate change,