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Back to School at Lincoln – La Lucila, Buenos Aires
I suppose not everyone waits 33 years to return to their high school, but I did. It didn’t start out well as I arrived 30 minutes late having taken the train and gone on a detour created by an ill-informed … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Argentina, digital photography, fine art photography, photography
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Palermo, Buenos Aires – Parque Las Heras
My memory of Buenos Aires is a network grid of memory strands that over time have loosened and been refastened into a random pattern of time and place. My experience once had the logical clarity of an 18-year old – … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Argentina, digital photography, fine art photography, photography
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Returning – photography takes me back
On my way….I am on a trip I’ve been trying to make for 33 years – back to Argentina where I spent my childhood and youth; where I first became enamored with photography. Its a place where I discovered I … Continue reading
Revolution in a Photograph – Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and Ai Weiwei
Two photographs published by artists of themselves have generated a great deal of controversy recently. The geographic and cultural distance between the two artists is worlds apart, but their response to repression through a photograph and it’s distribution through the … Continue reading
Teaching Photography As If Nothing Has Changed
We teach photography as if nothing has changed; as if silver had never been swapped out for pixels. If fact, that is how we act, as if the silver grains on film frames were switched with pixels on sensors with … Continue reading
Posted in Photographic Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged digital photography, education, fine art photography, learning, photography, teaching
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Scottsdale, Arizona – city of walls
Posted in Fine Art Photography
Tagged digital photography, fine art photography, photography
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Transformative Moments
A photograph transforms a moment in time into a window through which the invisible becomes visible. …inspired by Henri Nouwen
Managing the Image
Sorting through the catalog The images that a photographer accumulates over time are an extensive collection of creative acts, or at least, partial expressions of ideas. Any photographer who makes images for a living…or to live…creates thousands of tiny images … Continue reading
Creating the Image –
Previewing the options Photographers used Polaroids for many years to preview an exposure. It wasn’t instantaneous, but it gave a quick two-dimensional rendering of the scene. Unfortunately that technique was expensive and was most suitable in a studio situation with … Continue reading
Knowing the possibilities of digital manipulation
Understanding the characteristics of the photographic medium has always been essential for a photographer in order to imagine the possibilities. A key concept for beginning photography students is arriving at a comprehension of the negative – positive process and being … Continue reading
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