Next week three of our students, Dale Stuart, Jeannine Hinkle, and Janet Huston, who joined the Art Photography Program at the California Center for Digital Arts, will present their new work for professional review at the 2015 Palm Springs Photo[…]
On A Quiet and Empty Beach
On a quiet and empty beach, during the soft pre-dawn, 2014 leaves like a shadow, passing sober and silent as new dreams peak across the horizon. Inspiration comes as the blue of the past fades to the warm goals of[…]
“Get It Right In Camera.”
Forget about it. I hear it, read about it, and it is one of dumbest and misleading phrases around; “Get it right in Camera.” Usually this saying comes from ‘wanna be’ professionals, students, and camera sales types, but I[…]
Academia in Art Photography
If you have ever shown your work at a major portfolio review, or intend to go to one, you will find that more than 70% of your reviewers have significant academic credentials, usually a Masters in Fine Art often with[…]
What Is Art Photography?
Perspectives, Genre, and Education This fall we will begin a new art photography education program, a genre that is the fastest growing art medium the world over. Many photographers, new and seasoned, are attracted to the fine art field, but[…]
Portfolio Review – A Debrief From Two Fine Art Photographers
When my fine art photography students have completed a body of work, I encourage them to attend a number of Portfolio Reviews, which provides new artists with a professional opinion of their theme from reviewers who know the current pulse[…]
The Profoto B1 Air – The Sun Delivered
To be sure, I am not the first photography writer to provide a review on the Profoto B1 Air off camera flash system. However, I think I am the first fine art photography instructor/writer to tell you this system can,[…]
“Mojave Moonlight” – Exhibit Review
Photographic prints have always served as manifestations of memory. Prints seem to know what memory sometimes fails to believe; and prints, born as digital ciphers today, connect the past to the present. It is from these times past, that we[…]
The Salton Sea Fine Art Program March 28-30, 2014
Only three openings left – please register today at http://bit.ly/1h7c7UQ. In last week’s blog, I introduced the upcoming Salton Sea Fine Art Program, and, as I discussed this location, you know that it is well within my wheelhouse of visual[…]
The Salton Sea Fine Art Program – March 28-30, 2014
Only four openings left – register today at http://bit.ly/1h7c7UQ. If you follow my work, or have attended my classes, then you know that my overarching visual theme has been the study of man’s proclivity to abandon his/her dreams. So it[…]