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Aperture, Noise and Film Grain:The Quest for a Filmic Portrait
December 20, 2020 -
This final portrait edit was created entirely in Apple's Aperture software here at the end of 2020. Yes, I'm still runni...
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Black & White Done Right!
October 22, 2020 -
Exposure X5 (NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 vs.True B+W Conversion LUT) As an artist and photographer I'm not one to go by numbe...
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Back To The Future ~ Taking The Zen Path
January 12, 2020 -
A funny thing happened on the way to the future... I decided to go back. No, not back to 1985 but more like 2014. Since...
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"He Of The Darkroom Eyes" ~ On Mentors, Teachers, and Senseis
December 13, 2019 -
"Sensei: Portrait of Jerry Uelsmann" "You can do that?!" That was a revelatory question a young photography student nam...
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Torn Between Two Lovers
January 27, 2014 -
I've always smiled at the thought of American Poet Robert Frost's epitaph, which reads, "I Had A Lover's Quarrel With Th...
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We Were Mod Once :: Last Of My iPhoneography Books
January 19, 2014 -
Feeling nostalgic for things we grew up with is as natural to humans as breathing. We're simply wired for nostalgia. Som...
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Are You "Seriesous"?
November 26, 2013 -
Creating a new body of work can start with a whiff of inspiration from anywhere, and that inspiration can come to you at...
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"But It's Not A Portrait"
November 12, 2013 -
These two images of my mother's hands are part of a new project I'm working on; a long term project to create portraits...
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Create Custom Textured Brushes For Unique Portraits
November 07, 2013 -
Creating a completely unique and customizable look to your images can be as easy and fun as painting with textured brush...
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Forget About Finding A 'Style', Cultivate A 'Sensibility' Instead
October 31, 2013 -
So what exactly is " style", and why are so many photographers looking for it? Put a group of photographers together: pr...
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The Fine Art Of Texture Overlays For Creative Portraits
October 20, 2013 -
This two part tutorial on creating fine, textured overlays and backgrounds for creative portraits, is a companion piece...
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iPhone Tintype For Creative Portraits Tutorial
October 03, 2013 -
This tutorial on creating tintype textured backgrounds and overlays for creative portraits was inspired by a recent crea...
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On Jobs, Apple, And The Pursuit Of Excellence
September 23, 2013 -
Apple Wallpaper Some two years + since Steve Jobs passed on, his legacy for the pursuit of sheer excellence is still...
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Nothing To Teach, And No One To Teach It To
August 12, 2013 -
I heard this phrase once in an Alan Watts lecture he had recorded years ago. " I have nothing to teach, and no one to te...
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"Excuse Me, Do You Know The Way To Paris?"
May 08, 2013 -
Ah, Paris! City of Lights, City of Love, City of Culture, City of Photography. The history of photography, relatively sh...
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A Day At The Museum With Maggie Taylor :: Certainly No Ordinary Day
May 06, 2013 -
I believe I fell in love this past April 20th, on the last day of Maggie Taylor's exhibition at the Polk Museum of Art....
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A Navajo Rose For Rosa :: And An Artists' Reply
April 26, 2013 -
This post is a reply to a very well written response to my earlier blog post, "Who Is An Artist?" My friend Cedric says...
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Who Is An Artist?
April 15, 2013 -
For as long as there has been Art, there likely has been debates about what it is, and isn't. Not as often debated is th...
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Navigating A Life Photographic
March 27, 2013 -
Navigating a life photographic, finding your way from first love to a life-long relationship of creativity is one of the...
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Every Photograph You Create Is A Self-Portrait
March 18, 2013 -
If we really think about it, every photograph we create is a self-portrait. Notice I use the word create. Every image in...
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Feminine Ripples :: A Wealth Of Images By Female Artists
March 06, 2013 -
It may be an old nut, the question of how "good", or how talented female artists are compared to their male counterparts...
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What Is In Your Photographic Kitchen?
February 20, 2013 -
What is in your photographic kitchen? What herbs, seasonings and flavours do you most use? Like cooking, photography is...
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If I Were An Artist
February 18, 2013 -
"If I were an artist... " how many times have I heard that from friends, and students and just folks in everyday convers...
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Why creativeLIVE Matters
January 28, 2013 -
What is creativeLIVE? In short, it is a worldwide, on-line classroom for free while live, and during re-broadcasts, for...
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Filters, Plug-ins, Or Software?
October 29, 2012 -
"Use filters and plug-ins!" "Don't use filters or plug-ins!" It seems everyone in the photography industry has an opinio...
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A Poet's Place
October 26, 2012 -
What inspires you? What encourages you? Do you know the difference? Words are important things, what they mean, and what...
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Autumn's Focus
October 22, 2012 -
This time of season, many of us turn reflective and look back over the year, contemplating accomplishments and thinking...
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In Photography, It's No Contest
October 11, 2012 -
Do you enter your work in photography competitions? Do you answer " calls for entry " to prestigious venues and gallerie...
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Dead Photographers Society
July 05, 2012 -
Taking inspiration, and ripping out a page from the Peter Weir film "Dead Poets Society ", this is a follow up to my pre...
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An Open Letter To A Young Photographer
June 27, 2012 -
Photography is an art that captures all of us at some time in our life. Whether we are six or sixty when it happens is n...
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Create Something! :: Notes From The Unknown Lens
June 18, 2012 -
Shell Study I Every once in a while, hopefully not too often, we creative folks find ourselves in a place of deep funk,...
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Zen And Creativity :: An Homage To A Mentor
May 31, 2012 -
I recently created a small series of composited photographs, collectively called " The Bodhi Lands" that were originally...
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Ten Polaroids :: Creating Images With Malleable Materials
May 25, 2012 -
The Navigation Legend:: Polaroid SX-70 Film I've created a new, one-off series called Ten Polaroids to showcase work cr...
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10,000 Hours or 10,000 Photographs?
May 22, 2012 -
Ever wonder what 10,000 hours really looks like? In terms of days, weeks, months, etc.? How about in terms of actual art...
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Writings On The Walls
February 17, 2012 -
When I started exploring the fine art aspect of photography, and imagined my first solo show of photographs, I liked thi...
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