Everything we observe serves as a creators map, we choose a road and follow it, as we go, we discover our true intentions along the way. It’s the nature of creativity. We make choices from all the possibilities before us, and walk along a chosen path that might just take us somewhere intriguing. Artistic intention is […]
Framing Your Composition with the Tip of Your Nose
People talk of rules. In photography there are no rules, only guidelines. People talk of rules. In photography there are no rules, only guidelines. To better understand how to take a good photo we must understand how our own mind sees the world. Breaking rules is how we discover our own creativity. We focus on […]
How Not to Take yet another Photo of That Berlin T.V. TowerWhen people get lost in a city, they tend to gravitate towards the nearest phallic symbol.
“Paris is always Paris and Berlin is never Berlin!” — Jack Lang There’s a Radio /T.V. tower in Berlin at Alexander Platz. It has been photographed about one billion times. People can’t resist its towering might and priapic pull. There are so many photos of it that the internet groans under the pixellated-weight of the […]
The Flaneur and The Twilight Photographer — Street Photography
Summer is prime time for photo shoots on the street — depending on what your intentions are. Yesterday evening drew in quickly, I was busy reading a good book, one eye ogling the changing light outside my kitchen window. A keen photographer will always have an excuse to get out and take photos. I wanted to catch […]