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 …
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 …
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 …
Who doesn’t love having and being able to write the date “2020?” We can milk this for a whole year. We are kicking off our second official year as The Photographers Group and are looking forward to having it be fulfilling and satisfying. The whole idea is to take pictures and to love doing it. …
I’ve always loved photographing everyday life. What may seem ordinary and mundane today is actually much more special and unique than we give it credit for. It’s the history of our culture in the making. When I graduated college, I spent a few years as a newspaper photographer, shooting for a number of dailies and …
Sometimes we just like to to take photos for fun. Random pictures here and there during a trip or an event. But sometimes we like to take on something more long term. A project. Taking a photo is an action. It may take just a fraction of a moment or it may be more planned …
What do you do everyday? Do your daily routines contribute to growth? What do you wish you did everyday? Can you start doing them? Big habits are hard to maintain. Little habits are easier.
I take crappy photos. Boring, uninspiring, badly composed, worthy of deletion. Not a problem. I take good photos, too. Sometimes I nail it and get ones I really, really like. Ones that make me feel good. Satisfied. I don’t take bad photos on purpose, but sometimes they just don’t work. It’s all part of the …