I’m not sure if something happening for two years running makes it a ‘normal’ occurrence, but I’m not too disturbed by my lack of all things photography for the last couple of months. Just after Halloween, I tend to get strong creative urges to bake, to make christmas cards, and to make/buy christmas decorations. Compounded […]

Can other photographers critique images better than an average viewer? The main difference in showing a photograph to a fellow enthusiast, as opposed to a normal human being, might be a little bit like this: Photographer’s response – “I think your highlights may be a little blown there” “My eye is being led out of […]

I just read my first copy of Ag magazine, and there were just so many good things about it. It had a decent amount of reading in it, there were no gear reviews, there wasn’t a single “use your wide angle lens to add foreground interest to landscapes” or “how can I improve this picture […]

Yes, it’s one of those annoying overused phrases, but it does the job, and better than anything else I can think of just now. So, in photography, what good can it do? Is there any possible chance of discovering you have a talent for something that you simply don’t have the natural inclination to try? […]

Considering presentation, and how it affects our perception of images, I wonder if it goes the other way as well – that some pictures have a natural inclination towards being shown in a particular way? Think about one picture: imagine it first as a snapshot, a 6×4 or 5×7 glossy lab print out of a […]

I’ve been looking at, and reading/talking about diptychs a lot recently. Also, choosing what to show at People’s Photography and how to present it, made me think more about how my stuff looks, together. I think quite often, a set of images can become far more than the sum of its parts. I know I’ve […]