Green Action – Compost

Be more green! You can make a difference today! Make many small changes to make one big change! And you’ll save a lot! Take action now! Here’s one idea. Compost!  Welcome to Fall!  A time of harvest and preparation for the winter season ahead.  A...

All Religions Practice Forms Of Meditation

All religions practice forms of meditation. While many religions offer the same essential practices, each religion has its unique orientation; drawing on its own special symbols, stories, and teachings; favoring certain practices, subjects, and goals. The five major religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and...

Help Portrait Needs Your Help

“After three years, 25,000 photographers, 56 countries, 700 events, and giving away nearly 170,000 portraits to those who are less fortunate, the amazing success of Help-Portrait has never been more evident than it is today.” Now Help Portrait is ready to take it to the...

Ansel Adams – Photographer (1981 Documentary)

This 1981 documentary on Ansel Adams offers many insights into the man and his art. It’s one of the more comprehensive documentaries not only due to its length but also to the fact that it was produced only three years before his death. View more...

Rank Your Influences

You can learn more about your influences by identifying their relative strengths. This quick exercise will not only help you understand how different works influence you but also begin to reveal why they influence you. It’s time well spent. Make a ranked sorted list of...

Vision & Photography – BBC Explorations – Part 3

“So much of our world is invisible to us. Its secrets locked in time and space. But alter that time and space and the once invisible world suddenly becomes visible. ??Using a fast flashing artificial light or a strobe light, its possible to freeze minute...

Using Props

Most images can be compared to a stage. There’s an environment, a central character (often with a secondary character), an action performed, a prop (or two or three or four, maybe more), and light. Props are thought of as so secondary that we often overlook...

Mark Rothko – Color As A Universal Language

Sometimes the things we resist influence us the most. For me, this was certainly the case with the paintings of Mark Rothko. As a young man, I found myself alienated from many modernist works. I felt they were overly intellectual; you needed a degree to...

Selective Blurring In Photoshop CS6 – 3 Videos

Photoshop CS6’s Blur Gallery offers powerful, flexible tools for controlling blur in your images. You can see it in action in these three videos. Read more about CS6’s Blur Gallery on Julianne Kost’s blog. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

20 Questions With Photographer Huntington Witherill

Huntington Witherill offers quick candid answers to 20 questions. Here are some highlights. How do you know when an image doesn’t work? It will fail to communicate anything beyond the fact that it is a photographic record. How do you know when an image doesn’t work? It will...