Quotes
“It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
“That’s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.” -— Sofia Coppola
“I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it’s probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is … I think everyone needs to create something.” -— Ricky Gervais
Links
Photoessays/Bodies of Work
— Interesting urban twilight images
— Festival for documentary photography
— Italian psychiatric hospitals The images are not particularly striking, but the story is interesting and the photojournalism is good.
Post-Processing
— Colin Smith of PhotoshopCAFE: How to create and use textures I always wondered how textures were different from just a single layer file. It’s a pattern!
— Dealing with difficult selections
— Sean Tucker: Creating dramatic BW images
Field and Studio
— Abstract nature photography
Miscellaneous
— Ted Forbes talks about the earliest Leicas and how they changed photography
— A fun ramble If you are reasonably fit!
— Is moving from Instagram to Twitter more productive for photographers?
Blue dasher dragonfly, female. Pachydiplax longipennis. Black Marsh Trail, North Point State Park. Very common at this location.
Blue Dasher male.