Quotes
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” -— Barbara Kingsolver
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” — Muriel Strode
“Your biggest challenges, the ones that stand in the way of your best photographs, are not technical; they are creative. . . . Once you’ve learned the fundamentals, the challenges you have won’t be solved with your tools so much as by your thinking.” — David DuChemin
Links
Photoessays/Bodies of Work
— Parents and children and vice versa
— How Lee Miller out-surrealed the surrealists
Post-Processing
— PhotoshopCAFE: Multi-image content aware fill New feature available in beta.
— Photoshop Cafe: How to combine photos in PS for beginners
— How to avoid cropping when the aspect ratios that you need and have don’t match
Field and Studio
— Annie Liebovitz and portrait photography
Miscellaneous
— Writing poems in images
— Is the DSLR going extinct? but it is about recent trends in photographic technology
— Sean Tucker: Advice for the shy street photographer
— Simon Baxter and Joe Cornish discuss their “Woodland Sanctuary exhibit