The streams of things…
All things of this world start out new. A baby is born. You get a new puppy. The year begins. The new job starts. All meet the head of the…
A state of mind in images…
I’ve been to Chicago many times now and it is rapidly becoming one of my favorite places to photograph out on the street. I am actually impressed by how nice…
Links and lights…
Every-once-in-a-while there comes an opportunity to do something fairly unusual with my trade as a photojournalist. Photographing people on stage, performing on the court or the field, being out in…
For what every music is worth…
What a great subject matter to make the 700th post on the Fledgling Photographer Blog! Concert photography is one of my favorite genres. And it looks like it will be…
On moisture…
…and the one day it rains all month but nobody takes out an umbrella. . . I find it interesting what people carry in their hands. On a…
Portrait of new sponsors and the youth…
My young friend Austin here has been picked up by a few sponsors and it has fallen upon me to do a little photography for promotions and his new sponsors.…
A third of a day…
Teaching a class on the “Rule of Thirds” bothers me slightly. Why? Because I break the “rule” more than I follow it. I teach my students the “Suggestion of Thirds” to…
While local color is as real as it gets…
Sleepy little towns are the most difficult in which to photograph. Or maybe its because that’s where I’m originally from and maybe I hardly see the little “quaint” and “awwwwww,…
I, for one, definitely won’t…
And it seems neither will the Dept of Transportation in Memphis today. I’ve talked about such things before, but it is unfortunate. What happened was unfortunate. But what has happened…
You, too, can walk around…
There are moments when I just can’t sit in a room anymore working on a computer, writing in a notebook, being introspective and inverted… …I must get out and shoot…
What to do with old cameras…
Now that the conquest of the digital camera has thoroughly pushed film into the realm of “enthusiast” and “artsy” it is fascinating to see what happens when you expose photography…
Flights below the lines…
One of the things that baffles me, doesn’t seem like it should work, is powered flight. Its like… a vehicle that weighs multiple tons can go up in the sky…