The Benefits Of Selecting Your Top Images
View my Annual Top 12 Selections here. When asked, “How many good images do you make in a year?”, Ansel Adams replied, “Twelve good images in a year is a good crop.” Imogene Cunningham responded, “One in a lifetime.” Both perspectives are useful. We...Planning Your Creative Success
Plan for success. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I make those kinds of commitments at any time of year, whenever it becomes clear they’re necessary. But I do make plans at the beginning of every year. I review my Mission, Goals, Projects, and Actions...Alumnus Olaf Willoughby – On Being Interviewed & Interviewing
In June 2015, Olaf will be co-teaching ‘Visual Conversations’, a creative photography workshop with Eileen McCarney Muldoon at Maine Media College in Rockport. They will also be running a LightDance workshop in Brooklyn in Sep 2015. Olaf Willoughby is a photographer, writer and researcher. He is...18 Quotes By Photographer Michael Kenna
Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Michael Kenna. “I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don’t think it’s necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as a vessel for visual material to flow through, to encourage...Alumnus Sam Krisch – The Creative Curator
Image courtesy of Taubman Museum This is a guest post by Sam Krisch, a John Paul Caponigro Next Step Alumnus who lives and works in Roanoke, Virginia. He has curated an exhibition entitled Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro: Generations which will be showing at...Plan Your Creative Success
Plan for success. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I make those kinds of commitments at any time of year, whenever it becomes clear they’re necessary. But I do make plans at the beginning of every year. I review my Mission, Goals, Projects, and Actions...Alumnus Olaf Willoughby – Visual Conversations
By Olaf Willoughby “A Visual Conversation sets up a rhythm, a pattern of communicating in which images fit with one another, with a chosen text, a piece of music or artwork of any kind. It helps develop our voice and vision. Working through a series...Make A Plan- The Story Behind The Photograph
Procession II, Cushing, Maine, 1999 It took a clear set of plans to make this image – Procession II. First, I had to know what kinds of images I wanted to make, prioritizing some over others. Second, I had to figure out the elements needed...