Inside an Antarctic time machine – Lee Hotz

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. Learn more about Antarctica here. Find out about my upcoming Antarctica workshop here.

Engage Your Inner Coach

“If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.” – Carla Gordon We’re told that to improve and reach our full potential that we have to be our own worst critics. There is...

Make Your Inner Critic Useful

Your inner critic can be a terrible adversary or a powerful ally. Which one it becomes depends on how you relate to and use it. Like any animal, proper care and feeding can work wonders while neglect and abuse can produce monstrous results. The inner...

What's The Ideal Orientation For Your Book?

Horizontal, vertical, or square? It can be challenging to decide what orientation is ideal for your photo book. In cases where all images share the same orientation, choose the same orientation for your book; a horizontal book for horizontal images, a vertical book for vertical...

Doing It For The Love Of Doing It

The word amateur comes from the Latin word amator (lover). Amateurs simply do things for the love of doing them. Over time the word amateur has come to mean doing things with less education, discipline, and craft. Amateurs rarely create great works of art. Yet,...

Listen to the Words You Use

You can learn a lot just by listening to yourself. When you speak about yourself, your creative life, and the works you produce, the words you use can be very telling. Do the words you use share common themes? When I review someone’s work I...

Get Physical With Your Subjects

To truly touch your viewers you may have to touch someone or something else first. We have many intelligences (intellectual, emotional, physical, etc), but when it comes to making images we often leave many of them out of the mix. Try energizing your creative process...

Books to Help You Design Books

There’s a lot to learn about producing books and graphic design. Find books that will quickly help you learn about these interesting topics here. Find more Bookmaking resources here. Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing workshops.

Photo Books – How Many Images Is Enough?

How many images is optimum for a photo book? Of course, the answer depends on the kind of book being produced and its purpose. There’s no set number; extreme lengths for books vary between as few as 12 to more than 300 images. There are...

Writing Artist’s Statements

It’s important to learn how to make the visual verbal, by crafting artist’s statements. Many artists feel that images are better seen and not heard. I understand their point of view. But, face it, things will be said and written about your images. If you...