#841. The Visual Haiku challenge. Results are in.
12 talented photographers take on the challenge of creating photographs to represent the visual equivalent of Japanese poetry’s haiku.
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#825. Wabi Sabi & photography, part 2. Challenge results.
Assembling this post was once again one of those “what did I get myself into?” moments … How do you organise the photographs of others around such a philosophical concept as Wabi Sabi ? Well, this time, I chickened out, I simply am presenting your photographs with very little comment,
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#819. Plan vs guidelines (and the Wabi Sabi challenge)
Can something be beautiful and ugly at the same time? Well, a brief 1-week tourist raid in Egypt was enough to radically change my feelings about the aesthetics of local dwellings from the cultural shock experienced on arrival. To a pampered Westerner’s eye, urban scenes in the larger
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#815. Photography and Wabi-Sabi – part 1 & challenge
The concept of Wabi-Sabi is central to (some) Japanese aesthetics and separates it from what we Westerners have been taught to appreciate and strive for in all our undertakings : flawless perfection. Tourists flock to Kyoto’s Zen gardens from all over the world. And the stone, moss and gravel creations
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#812. How to infuse your images with meaning
Thank you to all of you who responded to the challenge set two weeks ago in “Photograph it like you mean it“. It’s only when trying to produce images for this article myself that I realised how hard it actually is to step beyond an intuitive process and become deliberate
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#807. Photograph it like you mean it (a DS challenge).
A photo that’s technically bland but ful of emotion is a winner. The opposite is a fail. Will you dare to take our challenge?
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#765. The photographic value of scarcity
There are two approaches to photography that strongly conflict with one another. I don’t believe one is inherently better than the other, though my feet are firmly in one camp. But it seems to me that one can lead to the other, while the other way around is impossible.
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#762. Shooting the storm
Just a few weeks ago, Cape Town was in real danger of becoming one of the world’s first major cities to run out of water. In several storage dams, the water level was nearing single digits; unrecoverable reserves, as the movement of water would stir up way too much silt
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#733. Monitor calibration for the truly un-gifted
This is a guest post by Chris Stump about a topic we too often brush under the carpet. The author is a former colorlab owner living in mid-coast Maine with his wife and young son. He attempts to navigate the post-film world on a fickle DSL connection, and posts photo related observations on chrisstump.com. Thanks
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#729. Bend it like Daido
Are, bure, boke. In English: rough, blurred, out of focus. 3 words to describe the style and philosophy of the Japanese Provoke movement of 50 years ago. The name’s Moriyama, Daido Moriyama. And his use of stark B&W (and, more recently, colour) to visually communicate the raging
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