McCurry is an adventurer, documentarian and photojournalist with a great soul, a big heart, and a celebrated pair of eyes. Steve is an anthropologist who endures with his subjects.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
I’ve seen time lapse before, who hasn’t? Maybe it’s a shaky seedling sprouting from the ground or a street scene with jittery people. Yet, there’s an emotion to Ben’s short films that I find unexpected. Not only is the still frame that captures the motion well considered but the motion itself has a power beyond the usual “cool” of time compression.
Continue reading...Thursday, September 24, 2009
"Photography is not like painting. It is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."
Continue reading...Monday, September 21, 2009
I believe you can break photographers down to two categories, “the makers” and “the takers”. I would put Rodney Smith into the former; he’s a maker. This isn’t a value judgment, only an observation, but wait, there’s more.
Continue reading...Thursday, September 3, 2009
In this Video Jeff Howe - contributing editor at Wired - explains the what, why, and how to take advantage of a radically changed landscape. Jeff Howe first brought Crowdsourcing to light through an article in Wired Magazine back in 2006.
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
There must be 200 links to photographer websites in my “inspire me” folder. It’s like porn to me. As with nearly everything, there are consequences to accessing so much imagery. The biggest could be jealousy.
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Perhaps Fine Art, or the stuff you hang on the wall, needs to be vague enough to provide a personally emotional experience that doesn’t answer too many questions.
Continue reading...Sunday, August 17, 2008
Call me a blog cruiser. I mostly lurk when I’m short of time. Given an additional disposable minute, I make questionable, not fully fleshed comments that typically incite ridicule. We all hit walls to scale and all my blog cruising reminded me recently of a tall one of mine: I’m not trendy.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 18, 2007
Look at Dad take pictures of little Ethan go down the playground slide. Wait – hasn’t he already taken about 300 shots of that 2 foot bundle of cute? Oh yeah, our lives are digital now. Content is overwhelming: words, images, sounds. Proud Papa uploaded this week’s most precious 150 images to the Ethan’s Cute website, so all his dedicated fans can view the little darling.
Continue reading...Monday, October 17, 2005
All but universal is the concept of personal space, private space and intimate space. Violate any one of an individual’s invisible concentric orbits with no invitation, and reactions range from mild discomfort to freak-out. Do it on a regular basis and you risk jail-time. Almost certainly then, personal, private and intimate marketing space exists.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
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