The concept is meant to make the viewer think about what is presented. It requires a degree of intellectual contemplation for understanding…Read more

The moon moves pretty fast through the viewfinder. If you wait too long, you’ll have to reposition the camera to keep up with it. Assuming you are photographing a rising moon, you should anticipate the movement by setting the camera up with the moon at the…

These lenses sometimes called prime lenses or standard lenses, produce a view that resembles the way we believe we perceive our world through normal sight. Things in the foreground, middle ground and distance are displaced visually in proportion to…

I used to make a pact with myself that I would take at least one photograph before getting back into the car. The main reason that this simple idea works…

Rochester was the center of the photographic universe.

  Recently on Facebook, the question was asked – Are we in the Golden Age of photography? Here is my two cents on that. It seems that everyone is a…

I use them for different reasons. Digital is convenient and modern but film gives me some things that digital has yet to fulfill.

For the most part, the images people made were kept in albums and shoeboxes. The images were private, shown at family gatherings and sometimes shared with very close friends.

One of the most irritating things in photography is that annoying little screw hole on the bottom of nearly every camera ever built.

Photography is a democratic tool. Anyone can practice and nearly anyone can develop the skills.