FEELING
How are you feeling? How does your photo feel? How do you feel about your photo? How did you feel when you shot it? Good? That is what matters. We …
Photography
STEPS
There can be a lot of steps to getting a photo and sometimes just a few. We know the barebones basics, turn on the camera, point, compose, shoot and check …
CONSISTENT ACTION
Heroic actions create the biggest push and get the most attention, but who can be heroic everyday? A few small, helpful daily habits can add up. What can we do …
AT SHOWS
Having shows, being in shows, going to shows are all great and can be very satisfying. And along with the satisfaction of appreciating the things on display is the satisfaction …
BEING JUDGED
It is tempting to say that no one likes to be judged, but it’s not very accurate. Many of us set ourselves up for judging all the time, on purpose. …
THE POWER OF DETAIL
Photographer Connor Williams (trulyperceptive.com) provided insight into his Lightroom processing workflow at our January meeting and gave us all deep insight and appreciation of the power of digging deeply and …
THE EVERYDAY VIEW
In the preface to his 1974 book, “Commonplace,” David Plowden writes about the character of America as expressed through it’s buildings, streets and daily scenes. These aren’t the specially restored …
COMMONPLACE
David Plowden, (1932- ), is an American Photographer known for his images of America, as she is. His many works are of the regular, ordinary American scenes we encounter every …
NOTHING TO SHOOT
How often do you set out with a camera only to find nothing to shoot? Is it really that there is nothing worth capturing or is it us?
SHOWING AT DIY
We always start with a blank slate. There is nothing on our memory cards or any photos on the wall before we put them there. This is the blank wall …