Real Flash Photography

Capturing lightening has always fascinated me. I know there’s a science to taking such photographs, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing.

Electric 4th in Series, photograph by TMC Photo.

The Blue Doors

The Blue Doors, fine art photography by october54gallery.

Lighthouses

What is it about lighthouses that draws people? People collect lighthouses figurines. People paint and draw lighthouses. People will stop to photograph a lighthouse even when there could be something else more interesting which they did not even notice in the shadow of that mystical, lonely, stark looking building poking the sky.
I think it is [...]

Hey, Me, Get Out Of My Travel Photos (Not!)

There are just about as many reasons for taking photos as there are people who take them, so it would be foolish for me to try to encompass them all in one itty-bitty blog post. But I do feel I need to respond to this blog post about travel photos by Natalia Forrest. [...]

Is Stock Photography Evil?

It is no longer difficult to take an adequate photograph. I say that with confidence, as a person who treats her digital camera as essentially a magic box with a button on one side and a USB port on the other. And yet, if I take enough pictures under good light, I can [...]

John Waters Says, “Contemporary Art Hates You …And Your Family Too”

I subscribe to Modern Painters, but just now got around to reading the September ‘09 issue — despite the fabulous John Waters on the cover.
Mr. Waters need not take it personally; I just have a plethora of magazines to get through, and if they aren’t in the magazine rack in the bathroom, well, it just [...]

Hell’s Bellas

Sebastian Faena’s homage Italian director Fellini, part of a series titled Hell’s Bellas.

Does it make a difference knowing it was an editorial for V Magazine?