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Experience Without Edits
July 09, 2025 - So often photographers are encouraged to edit their photos to make them "better". We take away the blemishes on a flower...
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The Guggenheim and Me
July 02, 2025 - Guggenheim Museum, NYC. There is always a story and this one is how the Guggenheim tried to chew me up and spit me out....
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Taking Your Photography to the Next Level - Part 1
April 21, 2025 - The right photo/art organizations can help you take your work to the next level.
In this blog, we will take a look at a...
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Top 3 Creativity Killers
July 28, 2024 - In a field of sunflowers, I went looking for Van Gogh. Instead, I found two things: One – I had no voice, nothing origin...
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Gestalt Theory for Photography
March 07, 2023 - Gestalt theory, based on Gestalt Psychology of the early 1900’s, is summed up in the adage “the whole is more than the s...
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Going Au Naturale with Color
August 18, 2022 - Natural light varies in color temperature from early morning to sunset. On an average day, color temperatures can start...
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Didactic, Descriptive, Reflective
June 03, 2022 - “I want the photo to stand on its own.”
“I want the viewer to make their own interpretation.”
There is an element to...
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Here Comes the Sun... Working with Natural Light
April 20, 2022 - For many photographers, natural light is their only light source. When there is enough light, they take photographs. Whe...
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Refracting Light
March 24, 2022 - Refraction of light occurs when the light passes from one medium into another. Think of a ray of sunshine passing throug...
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Candlelight - The Basics
January 24, 2022 - Candlelight illuminates subjects in such a romantic way. When used for portraits it can produce both amazing shadows and...
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Light Painting - The Basics
January 07, 2022 - Intensity, Direction, and Color, the understanding of light starts with these three principles.
Intensity is how bright...
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2022 - The Year of Light and Love
January 04, 2022 - The topic of light is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates. On the surface it seems very basic, but it is only as you e...
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Photography and Framework
April 01, 2021 - What is the first thing you see when you look at a photograph?
What is your framework for the experience of photography...
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5 Things You Should Know about Social Media Engagement
August 17, 2020 - 1) Algorithms can't read, but they are set to look at word counts. They give priority to comments of 5 words or more. Le...
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Modern Still Life
May 08, 2020 - Still Life is an art form that depicts inanimate, everyday objects.
What objects can you include? - food, flowers, rock...
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Twin Views of your Hometown/City
May 06, 2019 - Cities can be fascinating subjects. Watching how the daylight plays around the buildings, or how night falls and the cit...
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Judge and Jury
April 18, 2019 - You are finally ready to put yourself out there. Take the big next step. Go beyond the "Likes" your friends and mother g...
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Ethereal Obessions
March 29, 2019 - Each spring, I start stalking the Tidal Basin cherry blossoms. National Park Service horticulturalists monitor the Yoshi...
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I can fix that in post.
March 11, 2019 - Old film guys did not say "I will fix that in post".
I remember a time, when I could afford one roll of Kodachrome. Jus...
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Food for Thought
February 21, 2019 - I yearn for spring and its colorful blossoms, but instead am greeted daily by the gray light of winter. When nature cann...
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Inspiration or Theft?
February 12, 2019 - Annie Leibovitz, in her on-line Master Class, discusses pulling books by other photographers such as Robert Frank and im...
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What is so fine about the art of photography?
November 01, 2018 - Maryland Federation of Art just hosted their annual Collector's Choice event. For a price of $185 ($250 for the VIP opti...
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Behind Door Number One
December 04, 2017 - This was photographed using a 24-70mm lens at F4. By putting the focus on the light on the handrail, it creates a photog...
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Zoom Burst
December 03, 2017 - The first question intermediate and advanced photographers ask when viewing a photograph like this is "What is the EXIF?...
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