Blogs about Photography

The mail-in ballots are arriving in San Diego County, and the California Chaparral Institute in Escondido, who has taken up the good fight for the chaparral, has published a little bit of voting advice for …

Yosemite, California, September 2024. From the video This was my last chance....

Sunset from Printemps – Paris, France After I made gentle pastels of the Opéra Garnier, I walked to the other corner, where I found something even more dramatic: overlay ornate towers, the Eiffel Tower, and …

Every once in a (great) while you get that rare someone who speaks with such clear resounding intellect (usually backed by righteous moral outrage) that it leaves one transfixed in awe and wonder. It's an …

Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so …

After all my heart issues in May of 2023 I’ve been working hard to regain what I lost because of all of that. As the old saying goes “Dying really takes it out of you!” …

"Will Nikon introduce a global shutter camera?Yes.The only real question is "when?" I've been following Nikon patents for three decades now, particularly ones pertaining to digital imaging. Nikon has quite a few patents in the …

Ridgeline subscribers — Hello from somewhere over the North Pole en route to England. Kevin Kelly and I are running another Walk and Talk with a classic ragtag crew of walkers. This is our …

At 36 Boundary Street in London, a bold new mural rises 15 feet above the street. Anchored by scales atop a small seedling, the public artwork by Shepard Fairey addresses environmental justice and our responsibility …

We don’t really know much about Tomas, other than what we can infer from the photographs and words he left behind. Oh, and there are the snippets of memories by his grandson Terje (Terje Abusdal, …

In the mid-1970s, three women in their twenties decided to treat themselves to a Mediterranean cruise ship holiday. They sailed with the Fred Olsen Lines ‘Winter Cruise Club’ aboard the M. S. Blenheim, which began …

My relationship with photography continues to evolve. Lately it’s become much more personal, useful for holding memories of family and travel close to the heart and less to discover poetry in light. Yet there are …

Morning folks.Well, another post about film and I'm not even a hipster.Nor am I using the truly ghastly Ilford colour film either - a film that reminds me of the free stuff you'd get every …

Travel by Change – Denver, CO – Fujifilm X-T50 – Superia Negative Film Dial RecipeI get asked fairly regularly which Film Simulation Recipes are the most popular. For me, this is a fascinating topic, but …

Or, to quote one of the Carry On films, “what’s this thing called, love?”. So if you take a picture of a thing, are you capturing the surface appearance of the thing or its essence? …

Working outside in Austin in October still calls for hats and sunscreen. 90°f. @11 a.m.I worked on Wednesday. It was fun. But it was work. Today I photographed and walked for fun.On to today's subject. …

Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a …

Busy was the Chinese Communist Party in the first few days after it brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators on June 4, 1989. It produced a series of horrifying photos and a photo book to justify its …

Photographing a total solar eclipse is a special experience. On April 8, 2024, my friend Kevin and I set out to capture the eclipse from Perryville Regional Airport in Missouri. This was my second time …

Often I’m left with a selection of photos from a certain place and I try to choose the best one for a blog post. Sometimes that choice is clear, sometimes it is not. I tend …