Top 10 List

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.    [...]

Still Waiting

Will that train never get here?

Ruth Bernhard Photos in Art Show

Faithful readers — there is at least one, I think — will know that I am a great admirer of the work of Ruth Bernhard. Here is my earlier post about her. I am always casting about, looking for a reason to post another of her photos. I found an excuse just today [...]

Fluffytek Blog Review

I admit to being an Anglophile. How can you not love the British who brought us Shakespeare, Churchill and J.M.W. Turner ? Back in the days when the dollar was healthy and Americans could afford to travel to Europe, I went to the U.K. as often as I could. I feel safer and [...]

Lake Superior Nudes

Of 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 [...]

Gender

This is from an interview with Gloria Steinem:
Q: Do you see the world through the prism of gender?
A: No, the world looks at me through the prism of gender.
Her answer raises some serious questions for photographers, especially serious fine art photographers.  One assumes that people who take pictures for the “Playboy wannabe’ web sites such [...]

Democratization of Photography

We’ve reached the ultimate democratization of photography: Anyone with a point and shoot camera can take a picture and anyone with a computer can start a photography blog and write about the picture.
The question thus arises, “Why should I look at these pictures or read this blog?”
First, these aren’t pictures; they are photographs.
Second, this isn’t [...]

Naked Landscapes in a Land of Clear Light

This 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 [...]