By Lad Sessions | Travel Photography
As fall foliage gave way to wintry scenes, I have increasingly gravitated toward black and white imagery; in the bleak midwinter, images apparently turn monochromatic. Naturally, given my bent, this tendency prompted reflection. I enjoy making black and white images, learning as I go, though I do not feel especially competent. I offer the following […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Travel Photography
Weighing in at over a ton each and having been photographed well over a million times, sisters Rio and Senio Rita are our two local superstars. Gaining a subsistence living from the sea by netting fish from shore-based boats is an age-old manner of earning a living. The two colourful sisters have been the backbone […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
I do not remember when I fell in love with Italy, as it goes back such a long, long time ago. Wherever I go there, granted for short visits, I seem to come across beautiful places, good food and friendly people. A number of years ago, we found a sweet spot to spend some […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Recent movies such as Blade Runner 2049, Interstellar, The Joker or Parasite exhibit a level of aesthetic control that hinges on lighting, set dressing and camera equipment, and makes a trip to the moon seem like an improvised picnic. Can a solo photographer create something vaguely similar without 9-figure budgets and months of creative work? […]
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By Paul Barclay | How-To
This article is inspired by Pascal’s article regarding the large format look. It is also partially because I am not satisfied with my comments to Pascal’s article. Large format has a “look”, and as I mentioned in my comment, I am not sure that I really remember what that look is. So, I opened my […]
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By pascaljappy | News
2020 has been hard on all of us and harder still on some of us. Regular readers/contributors have disappeared altogether, which fills me with dread and grief. For others, while health has been OK, jobs have been lost or threatened. Few of us haven’t experienced first hand what it means to live under house arrest […]
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By philberphoto | Review
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity in my photography, because so much of it is about me. My recent post on the “short game” underscores how this sort photography speaks to me because it lets me put more of my imprint on images than other genres. So it is logical that, after having filled the […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
……. Sometimes Words Are Simply Superfluous
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , News
All good things come to an end, this will be our final challenge. But it’s been a good one, and things to come should be just as interesting and even more engaging! Storytelling gets a bad rap. Ask any film editor and they’ll tell you filmmaking is manipulation. Politicians wrap up facts and intentions in […]
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By Lad Sessions | Art & Creativity
I spent nearly half a century learning and teaching philosophy, with a couple of detours into the wilderness of academic administration. The students were wonderful, the courses challenging, the friendships stimulating, and the research rewarding. You can learn a lot about the world—and yourself—by studying philosophy intensively, and I commend it to everyone. When I […]
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