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The Life of a Photograph

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

I have just started reading The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell and it’s an amazing photo book. Sam Abell has done more than three decades worth of fieldwork for National Geographic and is an excellent visual storyteller. In this post I wrote about taking your time to explore different viewpoints. The Life of a Photograph illustrates this [...]

August Snaps 23 August

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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“Moon Power.” Allright, allright, not exactly the most inventive title, I admit, but I feel a little unsinspired with regards to titles tonight. Today I’m about 3/4 way through my August Snaps project. It’s been a lot of fun shooting with my compact camera and I would encourage you to consider a serious compact camera [...]

August Snaps 20 August

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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“55.” There is not too much to say about today’s image other than I like the various rectangular shapes (helped along by the half-finished white paint) from a design stand point as well as the yellow against the red and brown tones. I have walked past this particular scene many times and so today I [...]

Pete Turner: Empowered by Color

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Bold color and striking compositions are at the core of Pete Turner’s extraordinary vision. Critic A.D. Coleman wrote of Turner’s work, “A dramatist’s sense of event, intense and saturated coloration, and a distinct if indescribable otherness are omnipresent in Turner’s images.” In 1959, an expedition from Capetown to Cairo was a turning point in Turner’s [...]

August Snaps 13 August

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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“Texture and Shapes.” I left work early today and walked home in the late afternoon, just as the sun got nice and low providing a beautiful warm hue to anything in its path. This house is located on the main road leading up to our office and warehouse and I pass it almost everyday (usually [...]

Infrared Black and White

Friday, July 17, 2009

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A couple of months ago I sold my beloved Hasselblad XpanII to free up some cash so I could upgrade my Canon 20D to a Canon 5DMKII. However I kept my old 20D (partly as I have a few good EF-S lenses and partly because of the extra reach the 20D’s 1.6 crop factor offers). In fact I logged onto Ebay and [...]

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The Life of a Photograph

August Snaps 23 August

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Pete Turner: Empowered by Color

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