Monday Missive — May 23, 2022

Quotes

Just because you haven’t found your talent yet, doesn’t mean you don’t have one.” -— Kermit the Frog

Some artists have an idea in mind, and make the art to fit the vision.
Others shoot whatever they see, over months or years, then build a jigsaw puzzle out of the resulting edit.
Neither way is “better,” but in my copious experience, I’ve come to believe groups of images that are pre-conceived, or made to cohere to a concept or structure, often have a slightly enhanced sense of intent.
” — Jonathan Blaustein, May 13, 2022

The biggest changes you will ever experience as a photographer will happen as a movement toward more independent thinking.” — David DuChemin

Links
Photoessays/Bodies of Work
— Images from the breakup of the Soviet Union taken in the 1990s by Shepard Sherbells. Exhibit/sale of prints goes to independent photojournalism in Ukraine.
— Black and white abstract photography Neat images, some are a bit spooky
— Edouard Boubat: A Velvet Gaze

Field and Studio
— Drone photography tips

Miscellaneous
— Sean Tucker: Accomplishing life’s goals The story behind a project to photograph the Royal National Lifeboat Institute with collodion wet plates
— George Tice

Images from a club trip to Starlight Lake, PA, in the northeast corner of the state.

Clearly bear country.

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2 Responses to Monday Missive — May 23, 2022

  1. Ran Zeimer says:

    Rich, i tried to get something similar to your first one but did not succeed. you nailed it

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