San Diego – Lecture Tonight & Workshop Next Two Days

Lecture – Museum of Photographic Arts Tonight from 7-9 in San Diego at the Museum of Photographic Arts and Cuyamaca College, I lecture on my work and creative process. Here’s an excerpt from my statement A Call To Connection. “This work is a call to...

Mary Virginia Swanson – Business of Fine Art Workshops / Seminars

Mary Virginia Swanson is simply the best in her field – educating photographers about the business of art. Her knowledge of the diverse markets available (gallery, stock, publishing, etc) to artists is exceptionally broad and deep. Most importantly, she’s a passionate advocate for artists; she...

Paul Caponigro – HMCP

“The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography is privileged to exhibit a special group of Paul Caponigro’s photographs chosen by HMCP’s Director, Paul Turnbull, from Mr. Caponigro’s voluminous archives. Entitled, “Select Photographs: 1956 thru 2005″, the seventy-five silver gelatin prints can be seen in the museum’s...

Julieanne Kost – New ACR5 and Photoshop CS4 Resources

Check out Julieanne Kost’s web site for new ACR5 and Photoshop CS4 video and PDFs. ADOBE TV The Complete Picture – Episode 08 Let Julieanne show you the power behind the new features in Camera Raw 5. Discover how to make non-destructive localized corrections as...

Kevin Ames – Perfectly Imperfect

Kevin Ames found that perfect wasn’t and imperfect was, while he was a special guest during a special session of my Fine Digital Print workshops this week. After years of doing top notch commercial photography, to get the most expressive results from a developing body...

JPC on thirdeyephotozine.com

Recently Rayhaan Traboulay interviewed me for his online magazine thirdeyephotozine. Here’s an excerpt. RH I recently had a discussion with a friend about creativity within people. I find that people either generally “have it” or don’t. I believe that you can’t really teach it too...

Certificates of Authenticity

How do you reduce forgery? One way is to issue certificates of authenticity. The artist issues a certificate of authenticity with the artwork. There are many ways to handle this. The artist can give the certificate to the client. The artist can keep the certificate...

Printing – Ideal Viewing Distance

Scale changes ideal viewing distance. To see a 4×5” print you have to get close to it. You can’t see anything but its shape and color from the end of a long hall. To see a 6×10’ print in its entirety you have to stand...

Printing – Test Scale

When it comes to scale, there are many factors involved – aesthetic, practical, commercial. To determine what scale(s) is most appropriate for your work, you need to weigh all of these factors and their importance to you. Only you can determine this. My recommendation is...

Make Time to Review Your Work

Images (left to right, top to bottom) – Jim Graham, Andree Laliberte, Ginette Vachon, Barbara Myriam. This week’s workshop participants are all longtime alumni of my workshops. It’s a small intimate group – Ginette Vachon (Swiss based veteran world travel photographer), Andree Laliberte (Canadian installation...