OK, it’s barely year three. Yesterday was actually the final day of year two. 731 consecutive days of shooting, editing, organizing, processing and then posting at least one shot on Instagram @brokawphoto So now I am into year three and I’ve posted my daily photos for the day. It is an interesting practice. A good …
During the summer of 2020, over 60 photographers collaborated to produce images of barns, bridges and buildings in Hunterdon County, NJ. The primary purpose of this project was to be a focus for photographers to create photographs that would give them satisfaction and build their personal portfolios. To be human is to be creative and …
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I find when I am out getting photos for our Photography Group projects it is as much about exploring as the photos themselves. I spent part of the past weekend with a friend driving through regions of Hunterdon I don’t normally visit looking for barns, bridges and buildings and anything else that caught my eye …
Where the hell am I? For documentary purposes the location of your photo is important. This is especially true for Photographers Group projects. Subject like buildings and bridges have both a political location (road/municipality) and a coordinate location (latitude/longitude). For the Barns, Bridges and Buildings project, the file name needs to include the political location …
Our project is officially underway with a great team of photographers out scouring the hills and dales of Hunterdon County getting great shots. The objective of the project is two fold. One is to generate a large body of work by a diverse group of photographers that documents and expresses the built environment of Hunterdon. …
The COVID-19 shutdown during the spring of 2020, was a strange time. It felt like we were in limbo. I guess that is because we really were in limbo. People weren’t going to their places of work, kids weren’t going to school and, for some reason, people were hoarding toilet paper. Going to the grocery …
I like the parallels between focusing light and focusing attention. When we look at something we focus our eyes. We flex our ciliary muscles to change the length and curvature of our lenses so what we are looking at come into sharp focus. At the same time we are focusing our attention. We are looking …
A fellow photographer recently posted this on the Photographers Group Facebook page and I thoroughy enjoyed reading it. I asked where it came from and was told from another photographer who got it as a birthday card, so I kept digging. Who said all this cool stuff? It turns out it wasn’t one person. This …
I knew 2020 would be a tumultuous year but I thought it would be about the presidential campaigns. Now they seem tame and mild compared to what we are experiencing. https://photographers.group/project-q/While there is only so much we can do to turn the tide of world and national events, we can take pictures and document what …
The Photographers Group is a project-oriented group. When we do a project, we create a collective body of work. Much of what we do is documentary in nature. We create a visual record of our culture. It is a lot like travel photography, we just don’t travel very far. There is plenty to see and …