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Composition and Critique - understanding a photograph
August 14, 2016 - Understanding how to look at a photo and seeing what bothers or impresses you about it is the key to everything. I looke...
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Customizing the Lightroom Metadata Panel
April 23, 2016 - The metadata panel in the LR Library module has several different optional views of the quite large metadata field set....
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An Approach to Post Processing.
September 24, 2015 - I realize this is a long - and dense - article, especially for a blog post but please try to persevere through it. I am...
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The Salt of the Earth – a film about Sebastiao Salgado - review
April 18, 2015 - This is an interesting film in many ways.
First, clearly, Salgado is a great photographer - and that is the best and on...
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The Rules of Composition, The Rules of Art.
April 05, 2015 - The 'Rules of Composition' are a bad theory (a theory is a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is bas...
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Is post processing cheating?
October 11, 2014 - I was giving a presentation the other night to a local camera group and was challenged by a member of the audience about...
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Combat Photography
September 02, 2014 - Save the date -September 24th, 2014.
At the next meeting of the Central Maryland Photographers Guild, two experienced...
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Review: Focal Point: Fine Art and Creative Photography - MD Fed Art
June 02, 2014 - Review: Focal Point: Fine Art and Creative Photography
Maryland Federation of Art
shown concurrently with the Potters...
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Review- Naturevisions Traveling Exhibit at the Oakland Mills Interfaith Center
May 14, 2014 - Review of a traveling exhibit by NatureVisions.org at The Meeting House Gallery, Oakland Mills Interfaith Center www.the...
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Review-Six Artists, Two Great Shows
May 10, 2014 - Review – The New Pictorialists and Silver Visions
The New Pictorialists – Through May 31
Full Circle, 33 East 21st Str...
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Review: Karsh and Winogrand – both shows in Washington and both revealing.
April 02, 2014 - Review: Karsh and Winogrand – both in Washington and both revealing.
There are two exhibits here in Washington that eve...
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Review: N. Jay Jaffee - a disciple of the Photo League gang
March 11, 2014 - Review: N. Jay Jaffee Photographs from Public to Personal, 1947–1997
Monday, January 27 – Sunday, March 23
Albin O. Ku...
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11 Tips for Beginning Photographers - How to Start Taking Pictures
March 08, 2014 - ______________________________________________________________________________
I wrote an article last year for interme...
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Review: PSA-MAC at WSP: A Show I Didn't Think I'd Liked But Ended Up Loving.
March 06, 2014 - #HoCoArts
"Blending in Nature" - A Show by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Photographers Society of America at the Wash...
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I Want to be a Photographer - or an artist - a rant about people with cameras
March 05, 2014 - A rant about people with cameras. Some days, I have all I need to hear and I overflow.
So here it is. No bad words, jus...
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Anatomy of a street shot.
March 03, 2014 - This short essay is a followup to a presentation I made at the Central Maryland Photographers Guild about street shootin...
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Review: Excellent show at a terrific gallery - Full Circle, Ltd in Baltimore
March 01, 2014 - Review: Excellent show at a terrific gallery - Full Circle, Ltd in Baltimore
by SPE (Society for Photographic Education...
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Review- Group Show, Kish Gallery, Slayton House, Wilde Lake
February 26, 2014 - A group show with two themes -
" Honoring Women of the World: Commemorating International Women's Day "- work of Ann vo...
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Review - Photos at the Meeting House Gallery, Oakland Mills Comm Ctre, Col., MD
February 13, 2014 - Review of a photography exhibit 'Artists' Choice' at The Meeting House Gallery, Oakland Mills Interfaith Center www.them...
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Review of a photography exhibit- Nat Wildlife Visitors Center
February 09, 2014 - Review of a photography exhibit by members of the Central Maryland Photographers Guild (CMPG) - link to the show announc...
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The process of Street Photography - Part 1: Fishing as Metaphor
November 30, 2013 - If one has a reasonably good overview of fishing as a hobby, it is interesting how well this activity maps over onto pho...
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The process of Street Photography - Part II - The Goal Decides the Equipment
November 29, 2013 - Does Equipment Count?
Well certainly it does – to some degree. The right equipment will make the path to the final goal...
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The Process of Street Photography - Part III: The Arc of Street Photography
November 28, 2013 - Here are four snippets from http://street-photography-manifesto.tumblr.com/ that put some conceptual fences around stree...
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The Process of Street Photography - Part IV - Examples and Analysis
November 27, 2013 - How to we do that all thinking and composing in an instant?
You don't, exactly.
Like a fly fisherman, you learn to rec...
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The Myths of Street Shooting - explained and busted
September 23, 2013 - I was incited to write this post because of a question posted on an Internet forum and the several answers that followed...
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The key to successful street photography
September 07, 2013 - A casual remark today by a friend started me thinking about the circumstances under which I get inspired to take good, b...
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My opinions about Photographing the Homeless and Using Hipstagram-like Filters; negative
June 28, 2013 - I love photography and see it, not only as a way that I can be creative, but as a way to isolate and capture 'truths' ab...
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What is Street Photography? - and what it isn't
May 24, 2013 - I was incited to write this post after looking through a great many 'street photo' forum posts and reading online discus...
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The Meaning of 'meaning'
April 15, 2013 - 'Meaning' in art simply describes some sort of connection or communication with the viewer. The viewer see something, an...
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How to improve your photography: your own twelve step program
April 11, 2013 - I originally thought of titling this post 'why short courses and workshops are terrible, tutorials and books slightly be...
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The secret to taking pictures of people in a foreign country - for me at least
April 07, 2013 - Somewhere someone said that the photographer's attitude is the key to getting good street photos, as opposed to the size...
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A Day on Inle Lake
February 16, 2013 - We were at the end of second week in Myanmar and had arrived in Nyaung Shwe, the large town at the northern end of Inle...
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Getting to a Final Image - some words on editing photos for a new photographer
January 03, 2013 - The typical way to get into editing is mechanical. People learn some photo-editing techniques or tricks and then they wa...
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Shooting in P mode & Why photographers defend their methods
December 26, 2012 - This a short post I wrote for a popular photo site where there is a high percentage of relatively new photographers. It...
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Getting to the image - how people see and how the photographer can use that. Pt 1
November 22, 2012 - This is the first of a series of posts that deal with how viewers of any level of photographic sophistication actually p...
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Semiotics of Images - why some images are more comfortable than others -Part 2
November 21, 2012 - Semiotics
Content is king. Whatever else people 'get' from an image, how they relate to the subject either intellectual...
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Creating an image - the important things and a false start on composition - Part 3
November 20, 2012 - As far as I am concerned, the photographer must see through to the final image from the very start of the process, even...
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Managing the Center(s) of Interest - Part 4
November 19, 2012 - Centers of interest
People look at your pictures and instinctively try to figure out why everything is there and why ea...
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Adventures on the Road in Northern Laos
September 08, 2012 - There are two kinds of tourists in Laos. The first is those tourists with more money and little time; these fly into the...
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Adventures on the Road in Northern Laos Part 2
September 07, 2012 - Before I disclose whether I lived through being stranded in the middle of the night in an empty dirt lot in a small town...
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Adventures on the Road in Northern Laos - the third and last part
September 05, 2012 - Westerners can't really understand the dramatic difference between travel in the West and in the third world countries o...
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Photography as Art
September 01, 2012 - I sing only passibly, can't write more skillfully than that, can't draw water and can barely play music on a radio. I wa...
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Images of Summer
August 30, 2012 - Summer images
For those who enjoy larger images, I have put these pictures on a slideshow at my website. Just click thi...
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Esther, Sitting By the Road
August 01, 2012 - It was my first time back in Yangon, Myanmar – formerly known as Rangoon, Burma and it had not changed perceptively in t...
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Almost fluent in my native tongue
February 22, 2012 - I like the English language, it seems unending to read or to write. I love writers like Hitchems or Nabokov or the like...
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Pictures of Involuntary Memory
December 15, 2010 - I am a slave to involuntary memory; cues encountered in my everyday life that evoke strong recollections of the past wit...
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The color of small money
September 09, 2010 - The hill people of South East Asia– the montagnards – have little interest to national borders and many of them fought f...
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