Tag: art
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Really Good Articles

This is all about linking to people who are really good and who have incisive thoughts which can switch on a bulb in your head. Thom Hogan is one of the people i refer to both on a technical level but also on matters related to the ART of photography. this is a brilliant article…
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New Year’s Resolutions?…

This is the time of year when we plan to be better next year…typically (at least for myself and the people I am close enough to discuss New Year’s resolutions with) they are recurring, and most are tied to the concept of the “better version of me”… Is this the right approach? What should we…
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New Tech, New Day

The interaction between new technology and a new outlook is an interesting one. One of the mantras of my university tuition was “The Medium is the Message” Is it also true that the language of photography changes depending on the instrument being used. In the same way that a fountain pen changes my handwriting from…
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Print, Screen, Post…

Should I print my best work? this question raises its head from time to time, and whereas a few years ago i would have argued that any decent work should be printed, today, i am not so sure… I have been brought up in a world, where serious work is printed, and displayed as a…
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Colour…What to do

why is a monochrome image so fascinating….is it an association with all things artistic and intellectual, or is there something more… Is it akin to cooking up a good sauce….simmering off the excess fluid to accentuate all that is essential in the image; by removing colour, shadows, contrasts, and gradations of tone come to the…