It is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States. Here is a list of 10 things we are thankful for here at this blog. These are in addition to the most obvious and most important: family, friends, good health, shelter, pets etc.
10. Women unwilling to take off their clothes for my camera.
9. Hahnemühle Paper
8. Adobe
7. [...]
Archive for the 'Fine Art Landscapes' Category
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November 22, 2007The Limits of Landscape Art
November 14, 2007There is a new and fairly silly article about “landscape” in the current edition of Orion Magazine. You can read it here. It is by retired art critic Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including: As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (2001), River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge [...]
Slow Trains
November 4, 2007When you are waiting for one, all trains are slow trains. Might as well read a good book while you wait.
Lake Superior Nudes
September 24, 2007Of all the photographers I know of that are working with nudes outdoors – also called “environmental nudes”, a term I think meaningless; you can’t take a human being out of the “environment” any more than you can take the land out of the “landscape” – Craig Blacklock is probably my favorite. He is [...]
Naked Landscapes in a Land of Clear Light
September 4, 2007This blog and its accompanying website are experiments. Somewhere in the recesses of my brain is an inchoate idea of what a photograph of a nude ought to look like when it is of a landscape with a nude in it. And somewhere else is a vision of what a landscape without a [...]