In the latest issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine, there’s an interview with Richard Thompson. In his answer to a question about how much his songwriting is driven by knowledge and how much by experimentation, Thompson says something that photographic artists can take to heart. Just replace the musical references with photographic ones. There are many… [Read More]
VoIP – part 1
Back in the early 80s, when was working for Rolm, having left engineering and begun a two-year tour as general manager of Office Systems Division, I used to spend a lot of time speaking at conferences. We had a lot of circuit switching data communications products and the promise of future centralized packet switching products,… [Read More]
What’s artistic development — part 2
Can art — as opposed to craft — be taught? I don’t think so, at least not directly, but artists can be taught things that allow them to find a path to making better art. There’s an analogy with creativity. I think the following statements are true of both creativity and artistic ability. Everybody’s got… [Read More]
What’s artistic development — part 1
At the CPA, we mentally divide workshops into categories, two of which are “craft” and “artistic development”. Most of the time, we have no difficulty placing a workshop in one category. Gum bichromate printing goes in the craft bucket. So does digital image editing. “Finding your Work” is artistic development. We recently had a discussion… [Read More]
Landscape Light
No, that’s not “Landscape Lite”, as in lo-cal, dumbed-down, mindless eye candy. It’s light, as in easy-on-the-back, footloose-and-fancy-free, spontaneous, fluid, and instinctual. The key is leaving the tripod at home, and restricting your total equipment weight to five pounds or so. On a recent trip to Jackson Hole, I gave it a try. I took… [Read More]
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