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What Makes a Good Photographer?
Is the good photographer the person that can discover a unique perspective or scene in any environment? That can create a piece of art in an instant? Or go out on a jaunt and come back with something inspiring? Or easily delete or discard any photos they determine as unsuccessful in a quick glance (be…
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When Tulips Reach Middle Age
A two and a half hour jaunt through the New York Botanical Garden during their annual orchid exhibit, this year designed by the artist known as Mr. Flower Fantastic, was characterized by a beautiful early spring day. It is always at this time of year, during the exhibit, that the cherry blossoms have just passed…
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Good Intentions
I have already posted about Tim Carpenter’s (author, photographer, philosopher) book “To Learn to Photograph is to Learn to Die” but I continue to revisit this book and share ideas about it with the hobbyist photographer. Essential to Carpenter’s argument, that photography can prepare the photographer for death, is the act of “decreation.” In a…
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The mental stumbling block. The creative impasse.
Down By the Hudson, 2026 Sigma BF Monochrome Mode, Sigma 35 DG DN, edited Under the Bridge, Kingston, NY 2026 Sigma Bf, Panasonic 85mm Years ago, while in college and trying to design a high rise building (or was that the redevelopment project along the Monongahela?) I was given great advice by a professor: Stefanie…
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Protected: Is photography political?
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Color Me Impressed
Two streams of conscience at once. Can there be such a thing? Reading some notes I made in Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, one note from the margin stands out in particular, “the onslaught of photos is creating a world of indifference rather than reacting to it – thereby preventing the photographer to escape it…
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The Artist and the Architect
A casually dressed man sits in Piazza Santo Stefano, legs crossed, with a sketchbook and soft pencil in hand. His provenance unknown, he strikes the observer as a gentlemen of leisure, perhaps a professional, perhaps an architect. His gaze is a study by which one determines proportions, angles and horizon. His pencil moves deliberately, with…
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The Art of the Photoblog
(originally dated October 17, 2020) This is a copy of the first post I ever produced for a Photoblog, describing my inspiration for starting one.
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The Rawness of It All
After using the Bf for about 2.5 months exclusively in JPEG mode I decided it was time to try it with RAW files. With this kind of endeavor comes the need to critically evaluate my use of the software and its results. The magic with RAW is the software conversion and photographer’s processing. When making…
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The Risky Advance
About 30 years ago, while a frigid cold winter was invading the New York Metro area, I was expressing my disgust with my grandfather about the weather when he turned around and said “the Hudson River is beginning to freeze over with solid ice.” “What?” I asked incredulously. He responded in his diphtheria afflicted voice,…
Amateur in photography. Amateur in life. 