Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I hate feeling cheated. I really do. Here’s the thing. I enter photography competitions with the understanding that if I get any of my artworks to the award stage, I’m happy, and if I don’t get them to the award stage, I try harder for next time. Last November, my friend Melissa Simser Iovino (she’s…
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Last Thursday, I watched a YouTube video on focus stacking – where you take several pictures of an object and then stack them in a photo processing software, which then takes the sharpest edges of each picture and combines them. I’ve tried focus stacking before, mostly in my snowflake picture Mittsu No Yuki. This time,…
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Last week, I showed off some lenticular-like photos – the subject was three home-colored roses that were arranged in a bottle of Saratoga Vichy mineral water. Looked sorta like this. It looks nice …kinda funky … but, as you can see, a small breeze kissed some of the blue petals during my shoot, which caused…
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And the game begins. Iowa. The de facto start for my Competition Season 2019. Yesterday, I mailed a package of four prints to Des Moines. Last year, I claimed my first blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair when my photo The AGFA Bridge Over Ansco Lake claimed silk in the “Anything Goes” category. That…
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When I get a photo concept in my head, I won’t let the concept go until I’ve actually achieved successful results. I don’t care how long it takes – weeks, months, years – the journey is just as important as reaching the destination. Here’s my concept. I want to take a picture with one type…
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I see these ads on my Facebook feed. They’re usually from a company called Jack Seeds, whose advertisements claim that gardeners can grow exotic plants with vibrant, never-before-achieved colors – all the gardeners need to do is buy these magic seeds from Jack Seeds. Right. And then the beanstalk grows and you get to find…
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There’s an old but strong rule in experimental photography. Part of getting the best photo involves lots of trial and error. You never get it right the first time, but what you learn from that first time will make your last picture awesome. And this is doubly so when you use old film. Depending on…
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It’s a beautiful Saturday evening, and I’m parking my car at the Jericho Drive-In in Glemont. There’s a double feature of Detective Pikachu and Shazam! on the big screen – I saw the latter (and wasn’t impressed), and I have no desire to see the former. So why did I spend money for Saturday night…
Read MoreWith the exception of photographing a few snowflakes during the winter, the cameras have stayed on the shelf for WAY too long. And I needed to get them back in my hands and back out shooting. Trust me. I’ve got an itch that only a camera can scratch. Last Saturday, I packed my three-dimensional Nimslo…
Read MoreYesterday, I had to run several errands – some doctor’s appointments (Chuck is okay), dropping off my Bob & Ron’s Fish Fry artwork to Arlene’s Artist Materials to get it framed up (it’ll be two weeks, plenty of time for Competition Season 2019), and a few other things. And in the afternoon, I had a…
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