Landscape, Nature And Travel Photography

Photography By Jim M. Goldstein

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 [...]

Perspective on Perspective

This past week a few things have happened to help me put perspective in perspective.

My DSL connection stopped working which is always helpful in seeing the world strictly in an off-line fashion. It’s quite refreshing so make sure you reserve time to unplug and embrace the moments where perhaps that is forced upon you.
One of [...]

Making My Own Tracks – Racetrack, Death Valley

There is one clear way of knowing that you’re approach to photography is wrong… when you realize you’re not having fun. I consider myself lucky, as soon as I look through the viewfinder of my camera everything else falls by the wayside. This ability to focus and free my mind of extraneous thoughts enables me [...]

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 [...]

To Pay Tribute or To Strive For Originality

Photography, like all forms of art, is an incredibly difficult skill to master and adding to that difficulty is being able to find your own style or original perspective. As we make our individual journey, camera in hand, there is a time when we look to emulate or pay tribute to other photographers we respect [...]

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 [...]

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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