Support Your Local Photographer
A few recent posts have me thinking about support among photographers. From Stella Kramer [http://www.stellakramer.com/2013/06/24/support-shouldnt-it-be-a-two-way-street/] (via A Photo Editor [http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/07/08/support-shouldn%E2%80%99t-it-be-a-two-way-street/] ): > “Have you contributed to other photographer’s projects? As much as I
Does Gear Add to the Enjoyment of Photography?
Question: (edited for length) “For most of us, photography is a hobby. I suspect, when it comes to many people, the gear provides a lot of the enjoyment of photography. Isn’t that what it’s supposed to be about as amateur photography - enjoyment? The other thing I haven’
Photography is Not About Technique
Alex Furman [https://medium.com/click-the-shutter/9cfbf7aea1f0] writes about why everyone can and should practice photography: > “Photography, mostly, is not about technique. It requires technique, but technique is also the easy part and it; alone, won’t get you anywhere.” I’ve spent the last month devouring technique-related photography
Live First
The BBC reports [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22999245] on a trend brought up years ago in the A Lesser Photographer Manifesto: > “The habit of taking photographs, usually with our phones, of anything and everything is everywhere - instead of enjoying things or engaging in them, there is
Why Our Photos Are So Forgettable
From Ian Brown [http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/humanity-takes-millions-of-photos-every-day-why-are-most-so-forgettable/article12754086/?service=mobile] (via @docdez [https://twitter.com/docdez]): > “This spring, I was an adjudicator of the 2013 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival photography competition. This week, my three fellow judges – all professional photographers and curators – and I announced
The Perfect Explanation for the Proliferation of Bad Professional Photography
Digging through some quotes I had stored in Evernote, I found this little gem in a tough love article [http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/06/how-to-build-a-career-as-an-artist/#] for artists looking to go pro: > “The only difference between artists making money and artists not making money is that the first
Putting It Very Crudely Creativity Is The
> “Putting it very crudely, creativity is the ability to play. And, to be able to turn that facility on and off when necessary. This makes perfect sense to me. Everything I’ve ever written, created or discovered artistically has come out of playing.” —Ricky Gervais [http://www.rickygervais.com/
Favorite Places: Starved Rock
In 1769, a group of Illini were chased up a butte by Ottawa and Potawatomi. They remained there, under siege, until they starved. Ever since, this system of canyons and peaks, created by a freak flood 15,000 years ago, has been known as Starved Rock. Starved Rock [http://www.
Charlie Rescued Me from Landscapes
My whole photographic life has been spent mostly on landscapes. It's the most challenging area of photography, because it gets harder by the day to express yourself in new ways in the same places. Recently, I've come to peace with the fact that I'm
The Easiest Way Out of a Creative Rut
Is also the hardest. That’s probably why it works. I recently put The Accidental Genius [http://www.levyinnovation.com/books-by-mark-levy] method to the test. It’s essentially the same method as Morning Pages [http://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/], or dozens of others methods that add different angles to the