EVENTS
Events prompt us to take out our cameras. Something happens. Something new to notice. New stuff stimulates interest. All kind of events happen everyday. Waking up, traveling, weather. Other events …
STORIES
We tell stories all the time to each other and we tell them with our photos. Where we were, what we looked for and found, what we came across. Sometimes …
VIEWER’S FATIGUE
Has anyone ever wanted to show you all their vacation or new baby photos? Scene after scene of things they thoroughly enjoyed experiencing that may not evoke the same feelings …
STORY
Bernadette Jiwa, blogger, speaker and author, is primarily a marketing consultant speaking to the entrepreneurial community and her insights apply well to photography. She writes about the importance of telling …
BODY OF WORK
Creating photos over time is a cumulative process. We create a lifetime collection of many individual images that taken together are our body of work. Within our greater body of …
NO TIME TO THINK
How often do we have time to mull over our scenes before we turn them into images? When they aren’t moving. Moving targets scatter your contemplation like billiard balls during …
THE FOUR Fs OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is as simple or complex as our little brains desire. Fisher Price makes a camera for toddlers and Linhof makes superb high-end large format cameras for the ultra pro. …
WHO ARE WE SHOOTING FOR?
“And it’s One, two, three… who are we shootin’ for?…” (Sorry for stealing that line Country Joe McDonald, I have an earworm). 1960s rock lyrics aside, who are we shooting …
PHOTO HOARDING
Digital photos have no mass, they are not physical, although they do take up space; hard drive space, virtual space, mental space. Photographers are often proud of the number of …
SECOND LOOK
How often do we re-examine a scene after getting the shot? Probably fairly often unless it’s a timing thing. Static subjects are easy to re-examine. They don’t go anywhere and …