Not much time to play. Class is in full swing. Two days of shooting with short edits and reviews, and a longer review session, three hours, during this morning’s beginnings. Rain on the windows of the seventeenth floor. Each student …
Creative: Film Follow Up
Oh, my friends. I knew that last post might rile some folks up. I also thought that the takeaway might get lost because the second I mention anything about online photographers, or YouTube photographers, or film hipsters, people seem to …
Creative: Stop Talking About Film
Having just judged another massive contest, I can speak from authority when I say, “I don’t care you are using film.” And I’ll go one step further. In quite a few cases, film is holding you back, and in a …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Two
Japan broils. Fifteen to twenty degrees above normal. Day after day. The locals tell me it’s common now, like much else. The expected temperature drop keeps pushing out. A day here, a day there. The hotel onsen equipped with a …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode One
Let me preface this by reminding everyone that I am not in Japan to make photographs. I’m here to teach. Major difference. Will I make a few things along the way? Sure, but if I only made notes in my …
Creative: Thinking Peru in Japan
This is the guy who discovered Machu Picchu. He got lost leaving Costa Mesa and ended up in the jungle just south of the Mexican border. Pretty sure it all worked out in the end. He still has that shirt, …
Adventure: I Defy You
I defy you to try to anticipate when a bird will leave their roost and venture forth into the world. It’s impossible to know. And it’s crazy to shoot twenty frames per second for second after second, minute after minute. …
Creative: Strangers, One And All
I know a lot of photographers. A lot. Hundreds. Maybe even more. From 1988 to the present, through my tenure at Kodak Professional to my current standing at Blurb, I’ve met more than I can count. Some individual festivals introduced …
Read: A Beginner’s Guide to Japan
You could say I’ve been on a Pico Iyer kick as of late. Yes, that is an accurate statement. It helps that Iyer has spent several decades living in Japan, and I’m about to make my first trip, but I …
Creative: Being a Photographer
There is where you want to be, and there is where you are. Your job as a photographer is to react to where you are, not postpone your efforts until you find yourself in the perfect scenario. Don’t get me …