Month: January 2019

FOLDER NAMING

A hard drive is certainly handy to store digital files as is the cloud, but naturally we’ll want things organized so we can easily find them again. Most of us do this by creating folders. Folders are handy and useful. The question is how do we organize our organizational files? Usually we do this by …

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COURAGE

It takes courage to do a lot of things. It takes courage to take some photos. Courage to walk up to a stranger and ask to take their photo. Courage to go outside when it’s subzero and your fingers hurt. Courage to shoot something important outside your comfort zone. Practice courage, you get better at …

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ON PURPOSE

We take photos on purpose. It’s not involuntary like beating our heart or scratching an itch. Or maybe it is like scratching an itch, a little bit. An itch is tickle, a twinge that needs attention, most often in the form of fingernails or a tree trunk if it’s a back itch. We are prompted …

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OWNING YOUR SKILLS

Seth Godin writes “… if you learn a new skill, you own it forever.” He compares the time we spend on different things to their long term value and the cost a fruitless activity might incur if it supplements a better activity. Is browsing Facebook more valuable than an alternative, like learning about something you …

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PROJECTS

Every photo is a project and it’s really just a matter of scale. Maybe it’s a quick snap shot or a life time long mission. The beautiful of tackling is the satisfaction of applying the application of the doing.

WORKSHOPS?

Why take photo workshops? To learn, expand and enjoy. To take in a new perspective. To find out something new or a new way of thinking about the familiar. It’s about curiosity. How curious am I about the potential of new knowledge? Curious enough to go somewhere to find out? If I am not I …

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DOING SMALL THINGS WELL

In his daily blog, “A Learning a Day,” (alearningaday.blog) Rohan Rajiv, provides wonderful everyday wisdom for all of us. One recent post (January 25, 2019) offered these simple words. “Timely reminder to self – we can’t always do big things, but we can do the small things with extraordinary care.” (alearningaday.blog/2019/01/24/the-small-things-reminder/) This is the kind …

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WET

Shooting in the rain is less common than most other times, so your photos may be a little more unique. Rain can be interesting and it can be easier to tell a story (especially if the story is that it’s raining). The lighting may be less interesting (lower contrast, less color) which can be tweaked …

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PRACTICE

Is all of our photography practice? Do we practice creating images like doctors practice medicine? Maybe it is more akin to playing music. Sometimes we experiment and try new things when nobody will see and when we are on the spot we need to perform. Fortunately in many circumstances if we get a bad shot …

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SHADOW

Without shadow, even the tiniest shadow from texture or some shading, a photo has no depth, no shape. Light is what we measure and shadow is what makes a photo interesting.