Over the weekend, I attended a CPA members’ workshop. In one of the plenary sessions, someone said that digital photography and conventional chemical photography were qualitatively different in that the former was a left brain activity, and the latter used the right brain. While I thought it was a novel idea, I was at the… [Read More]

At the joint workshop with John Sexton, Ruth Bernhard gave the participants some advice — the same advice that she gave in the two previous workshops that I’d attended with her: Take photographs no more than 30 feet from your bed. It was not expressed as an exercise, but as a preferred way for an… [Read More]

While I was working on the last post, I went through my notes from many of the workshops that I’ve attended. I thought you might be interested in my notes from the workshop I did with Ruth Bernhard and John Sexton. I think many of the points they made are universal, important, and timeless. A… [Read More]

A few weeks ago, someone remarked in the negative about the shortage of CPA workshops centered on developing artistic abilities. (Note to self: maybe there should be a future blog post analyzing why the people who help the most complain the least, and the people who stand on the sidelines complain the most.) I noted… [Read More]