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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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
North American usage: Slough (pronounced – sloo): A side channel or inlet, or a natural channel that is only sporadically filled with water. Much loved and much maligned, the unplanned, unregulated collection of houses, boardwalks, net sheds and boats called Finn Slough straddles the channel between Whitworth Island and Lulu Island on the Fraser River in […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
You’re locked in, trying to protect yourself and others from an epidemic like few of us have ever known and someone throws a spanner in your best laid plan to sit this out with a good book. That someone is Pascal Ollier, put the blame squarely on him 😉 His challenge to you was simple […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity
Here is the video that started it all. It talks about exceptional performance without exceptional talent. You can imagine how readily this resonated within me as a photographer. Producing masterpieces without being a master… It speaks about 2 basic elements, both of which I immediately decided to try to incorporate into my photography, […]
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