4 Reasons To Be In Midcoast Maine This Weekend

It’s high season in Maine right now. The weather is gorgeous. And there are lots of events this weekend. Most know about The Maine Lobster Festival, an event that draws over 100,000 people in 5 days. Many know about all the great art events that...

What It Takes To Be A Great Workshop Leader

What does it take to be a great workshop leader? The same things that it takes to be a great leader in any field. A great leader communicates passionately. Then they fan the flames of other people’s passions. The one thing you don’t want to...

Keep Current Projects Visible

These are two book covers for projects I’m currently developing. I create visual reminders for projects I’m currently working on. Then I place them in my working environment. They constantly prompt me to consider the work I’m developing at many times and in many moods....

Condensation – How Looking Inward Illuminates The Outside

Enjoy the text from my book Condensation. . Condensation . Light . All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are more about spaces they represent than the objects within...

Correspondence – How Feeling Connected Makes Better Images

Enjoy the text from my book Correspondence. . Correspondence The first thing I do when I walk outside is look up. The next thing I do is scan the horizon. Hopefully, there’s water nearby; no matter how active or still it is, I’m mesmerized by...

Tag Galaxy – Search Flickr Visually

Tag Galaxy offers an interactive way to search Flickr visually. 1    Type a tag and a galaxy of related tags will appear as orbiting planets. 2    Click on a planet and images will be assembled in an interactive orb. 3    Click on an image to...

How To Discover Qualities With Adjectives And Adverbs

  This article is part of a series … Take Inventory With Nouns. Discover Qualities With Adjectives And Adverbs. Identify Actions With Verbs.   Develop the habit of making lists and you’ll dramatically sharpen your powers of observation and retention. (We’re 72% more likely to...

How To Identify Actions With Verbs

This article is part of a series … 1.    Take Inventory With Nouns. 2.    Discover Qualities With Adjectives And Adverbs. 3.    Identify Actions With Verbs. Develop the habit of making lists and you’ll dramatically sharpen your powers of observation and retention. (We’re...

Using Visual Metaphors

Here’s an excerpt from my column in the current issue of AfterCapture magazine. “In photography, metaphors are visual rather than verbal. Different kinds of connections and transferences of shared qualities are made more easily with visual language than with verbal language. Relationships that can be...

Workshop Review – Along the Waterline

At the end of my field workshops we do rapid fire reviews of the work done that week. Everyone puts in at least 6 images. We don’t know who’s pictures we’re looking at. We call out star ratings fast getting a quick first impression. Then...