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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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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?
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Faith in Color
Fresh Language Warning: In college, I had a friend/classmate studying architecture. The project, or “charrette” as we sometimes called them (always a French word to make us feel adult, intellectual and important), was an exercise in the exploration, use and recognition of color. Our task was to best recreate a color picture with a collage…
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The Photographic Trope
Tim Carpenter, photographer and author, has published a book titled: To Photograph is To Learn How to Die. This book dances around many of my thoughts when considering the motives and goals of my photography. I will try my best to paraphrase his work and if possible, dovetail it into my own simpler, if not…
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The City That Never Sleeps
The Christmas holidays distort reality in New York City. For a short time, the visitors revel in the holiday spirit, the street performers cater to the holiday cheer and the windows on 5th Avenue are decorated to interest the tourist with a style that is all New York… Sigma Bf, Meike 55mm 1.8 Pro But…
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Can you grab some bagels?
I woke up this morning to another grey sky day and it seems December is transforming into November. The Art of Noise has a wonderful song named Opus 4 and I suggest, when you have a chance (preferably in November), to play it on your typically cloudy mid-autumn leafless day. No sun, no birds, no…
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Nostalgic Word Salad
(October 19,2020) Chuck Klosterman, writer/author, published an essay about nostalgia in 2011 and re-published it in a collection of essays with a prologue written in 2017. In both works, he references music and photographs to make his argument: the experience of nostalgia has changed. If I interpret Klosterman correctly, these experiential changes were a result…
Amateur in photography. Amateur in life. 