We are all guilty of shooting cliché imagery. Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. The cliché seems to have been ingrained into our DNA.

he Camera Obscura allowed the user to see the subject projected onto a ground glass. The projected image could be traced onto a translucent…

Here are a few quotes by some of the greatest image-maker’s and an essayist, as well as a few images, which I think help to illustrate what is stated.

      The act of seeing can happen anywhere. Many people dream of going to a far away place to find the exotic as subject for their work. However,…

Cliché and banality are both very close in definition, yet they are also used quite often to distinguish between certain types of photographs.

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.

  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…

I have probably learned as much about photography through looking at paintings as I have learned from photography.

  Back in the winter, I had been thinking it would be pretty cool if the Lytro camera could produce Infrared images that re-focused, or do any of the other…

The choice of subject and its impact on our lives plays a critical role in determining the value of our time spent making images.