By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
My recent trip to the UK didn’t go quite as planned 😉 Weather was in total contrast to previous (and following) weeks: wet wet wet. And the UK government proved as reliable as our own by announcing an end to self-quarantine for French visitors on the 4th, no wait, the 6th, no wait, the 10th […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity
“Enigma – A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.” (Oxford) A few years ago I got introduced to the work of Abelardo Morell, a Cuban American photographer and Professor Emeritus of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. He’s most famous for his “Camera Obscura” project which turns rooms into a camera […]
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By Paul Barclay | Art & Creativity
I thought I would share some photos taken at the end of May one evening when the sun decided to break out after a stretch of grey skies. Rather than do my usual walk in my neighborhood I decided to go the near by town of Poulsbo, WA, which has a nice water front park […]
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By Paul Perton | Art & Creativity
Looking back on my recent lockdown article, I realise now that it was really only half of what is evolving into a much bigger and for me, significant project. The images and textures in that post all demonstrate the evidence of man’s presence and the impact he has made. The images I posted were in […]
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By Bob Kruger | Art & Creativity
There are innumerable granite boulders strewn about my property, part of a five-million-year-old stream bed I have been told by a geologist neighbor of mine. I have photographed many of these moss- and lichen-covered boulders over the years. (They don’t move quickly, so even I can make a sharp image.) I have also photographed, at […]
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By Paul Perton | Art & Creativity
When you’ve exhausted just about every idea, tired of yelling at your similarly incarcerated family, got over Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and bored friends and acquaintances with e-mails and text messages, it probably time to get lateral. I’m also fed up with re-editing images chosen in Lightroom and imported as otherwise new RAW files into […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity
5 more findings from trying to will myself to photographic mastery! In paintings, there is a significant difference, in price at least, between a painting by the great artist himself, or one that looks “just like it”, but “attributed to”, “his studio”, “his circle”, “follower of”, “in the manner of”, “after”. Each step takes the […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
It’s amazing how much the coronavirus pandemic has dampened my ordinarily good spirits and, thus, my creativity. Each day of persistent uncertainty has drug on in a most alarming way, so much so that I had to have a firm talk with myself about picking up my camera and taking a few photos. Sort of […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Well, another tough one, right? This time, you can blame Adrian, I had nothing to do with it. The Bayhem challenge was his (excellent) idea and here’s what came in in reply 🙂 But, first, let’s recap and describe why this is interesting and difficult. The idea was to create photographs in which […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
If our recent confinement photography challenge results prove anything, it’s that we are all capable of creating wonderful photographs stuck within four walls or within the corner posts of a garden, or the tolerated walks we can take. My cheeky question is : does this lack of freedom actually make us better? 😉 […]
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