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Tag Archives: selections
Monday Missive — July 6, 2020
Quotes “Photography is a window to place, time and memory.” — Soomin Ham “If you want more creative photographs, you need to learn to think more creatively: not different gear, but different thoughts.” — David duChemin “The decisive moment is … Continue reading
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Tagged ACR, camera raw, composites, Down, dust, Henri Cartier-Bresson, masks, selections, stacked focus
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Monday Missive — June 1, 2020
Quotes “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” — Toni Morrison “You don’t need to explain yourself. Shoot what makes you happy.” — Sean Tucker “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what … Continue reading
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Tagged color, double exposure, landscapes, layers, lighting effects, masks, platinum, Ruth Orkin, selections, shadows, wildlife
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Monday Missive — November 11, 2019
Quotes “Ideas, bread and books are all the same–they’re better when they’re shared.” — Seth Godin “Staring out the window to me is very constructive time. I bounce off the walls of my imagination and, every once in while an … Continue reading
Monday Missive — October 21, 2019
Quotes “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.” — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “Pilgrim leaves crowd the air with their falling every October. The journey is always the same.” — Linda … Continue reading
Monday Missive — September 16, 2019
Ooops. I published September 16 on September 9, but won’t change the dates, because the URL uses the title and I am not sure what will happen to the posting. Sorry for the confusion. Quotes “For each of the artists, … Continue reading
Monday Missive — June 24, 2019
Quotes “Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield “A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.” – Annie Leibovitz “I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather … Continue reading
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Tagged blur, brushes, BW, Creativity, ethics, hair, Links and Quotes, masks, minimalism, Monochrome, portraits, selections, skin, text and images, textures, travel
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Monday Missive — June 17, 2019
Quotes “Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” – Arnold Newman “To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.” — Sarah … Continue reading
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Tagged blend modes, composites, gradient filter, Links and Quotes, masks, selections, shadows
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Monday Missive — June 10, 2019
Quotes Interviewer James Robert Southard: What makes for your perfect day of shooting? “It is walking into a place, often a new place. It is being in that perfect moment when you see it and you know it and you … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of Photography, contrast, defringing selections, Links and Quotes, masks, Paul Caponigro, selections, video
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Monday Missive — June 3, 2019
Quotes “You are your own first and most important audience. That’s how you please your audience. By making your art for you.” — David DuChemin ‘“[He] encouraged me to let myself go, not hold anything back, try everything,” she recalled‘ … Continue reading
Monday Missive — May 27, 2019
Quotes “…the goal of art was the vital expression of self.” – Alfred Stieglitz “Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; And then do it.” – Duane Michals “Style has no formula, but … Continue reading
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Tagged color, Links and Quotes, negative space, selections, Texture
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Monday Missive — April 29, 2019
Quotes “That’s why I fight against the notion of rules. . . They don’t encourage the kind of questions that will get us to making better photographs. They don’t ask Why. As in, ‘Why am I making this photograph and … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, black and white, BW, emotion, Landscape, Links and Quotes, masks, monochome, selections, workflow
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Monday Missive — November 12, 2018
Quotes “Pilgrim leaves crowd the air with their falling every October. The journey is always the same.” — Linda Pastan “The ritual sadness of the season is more voluptuous than joy.” — Linda Pastan “Art is, or ought to be, … Continue reading
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Tagged ACR, camera raw, color, copyright, film noir, Landscape, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, long exposure, multiple exposure, Select subject, selections, wildlife
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Monday Missive — October 1, 2018
Quotes “I just don’t like having to ask anyone for anything in terms of finances. I don’t like having to wait for someone to approve where I can get my idea off… Like, if I want to make an album … Continue reading
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Tagged Archive, Colin Kaepernik, fall color, filters, Impressions, Legacy, Links and Quotes, Magic wand, mirrorless, Photoshop, Quick select, selections
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Monday Missive — September 10, 2018
Quotes “I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.” — Sarah Moon “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” — Ralph Hattersley “Great photography is about depth … Continue reading
Monday Missive – March 27, 2017
Quotes “I believe in wonder and look for it every day.” – Keith Carter “Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary…” — Steven Weinberg And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in greet underwood and cover Blossom by … Continue reading