There is a never ending flow to the projects we can do, on our own or with others. For our recent group project, Flemington Streetview, we focused on photographing Main Street, Flemington NJ during one weekend in October. The aim was to express downtown Flemington as it is, now, in the early part of the 21st …
What’s a generic photo? What’s “generic?” Generic means not specific, not one of a kind, not especially unique. Generally acceptable but not remarkable. When are our photos generic? Probably most of the time. But that’s entirely OK if you keep producing, keep reaching and pushing the envelope. Generic is easy and quick. There is little …
What’s showing? Are you showing? In a show? Showing off? Showing your cards? Showing your true self? Lots of meanings in there. Showing our photos can have many meanings, too. Some of us show to compete, some to sell and some just to be a part of a larger effort. The best is when it’s …
Joe is an artist. An irreverent, wacked, passionate artist. And a good friend. His advice to young artists is to be obsessive. Good advice. When you are obsessed, you’re focused. When you are focused, you are at your peak of attention. You’re there (wherever there may be).
What matters more, content of presentation? In the early days of photography presentation was pretty rough. Photos were blurry, over or under exposed and often fairly passive with people just standing. Not much action. But it was state of the art. Later came small format film and the pioneers of street photography and photojournalism. Content …
How often do you see a nice shot and think, “I need to get that shot sometime.” This can happen as part of a commute or maybe a local trip you take occasionally. I head to the city every couple of months and pass areas I’d like to stop and get some shots. But I’m …
Often we photograph things we don’t like. The world is full of photos of things that are not good. There is an urge to visually point at such things and say “Look.” We want to bring other people’s attention to what we see.
There is a Talmudic saying that says, “We do not see things as they are.” What do we see? Is this a warning sign? A piece of art? Or a gate? Maybe there is no “are.” We see what we see. We miss a lot that others may catch and we catch stuff others may …
Attention gets tired. Not just when we are suffering through a boring lecture or listening to a rambling relative but pretty much all day, every day. Wikipedia has some nice technical jargon..”.. overuse of the brain’s inhibitory attention mechanisms, which handle incoming distractions while maintaining focus on a specific task.” I think this translates to …
Sometimes you get to work under less than perfect conditions. You go where they put you and do your best…