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Photography, It’s All Things to All People.

Funny thing about photography, it’s all things to all people.

There’s never just one “right way” to learn it.
There’s never just one “right way” to do it.
There’s never just one “right way” to develop or post-process it.
There’s infinite subjects.
There’s never just one “right way” to share or show it.
There’s an audience for virtually every subject.
You can [...]

Embracing the Imperfect Image

What is a photograph?
I suppose the answer to this question will get depend on the person reading it. Your background in the arts, your level of skill as a photographer and a myriad of other factors will drive you to answer this question differently.
For me a photograph is the ultimate in personal expression… at least [...]

Art and Prejudice: What Is The Real Truth In Photography?

Featured today is a guest blog post by photographer and friend Guy Tal. Guy has long been an inspiration in both his photography and writing. Our blog post exchange today touches on a subject discussed in an essay “This Photo Is Lying to You” by Rob Haggart in Outside Magazine that resonated with both Guy [...]

Film Is Dead. No Really!

Sadly the statement “Film is dead.” has been played out far too much over the past few years. While running errands in my neighborhood I noticed a long standing local photo processing business had closed its doors. The casual reader might quickly dismiss this, but I urge you not to. Why?
We all read articles and [...]

A Community With Out Borders

As part of my blog post series Lunar Impact, Get Ready for it!, my last post Thanksgiving on an Exponential Order discussed what we all share and can be thankful for as a world community. Another aspect of global community was expanded on in In The Shadow of the Moon as Buzz Aldrin shared in [...]

Thanksgiving on an Exponential Order

As part of my blog post series Lunar Impact, Get Ready for it!, my last post Isolation and Discovery focused on temporal perspective, but ended alluding to a common philosophy shared between many of the Apollo astronauts and I.  The shared philosophy and thought was put best by Apollo 15 astronaut Col. David Scott of [...]

Finding My Happy Place

I’ve crossed the half way point of my trip and so far things are going quite well. Today was particularly nice. The weather was mostly cloudy, cold and even rainy. For most these conditions would seem far from ideal, but that’s not the focus of this post. What made today particularly nice for [...]

Photo Manipulation – When Can You Believe Your Eyes

Today there was a good conversation on the subject of photo manipulation on NPR “In A Photoshop Age, Can You Believe Your Eyes?” that I highly recommend listening to if and when they put up a recording of the program. As expected the ethics of photography played heavily in the discussion with many references to [...]


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