Sometimes, I feel enormous pressure to create. Street photography allows me to grab my camera, walk out the door, and within minutes I’m in a different world. Late afternoon, writing, occasionally stopping to look out the window at the evening light drawing in; I had a letter to deliver, which Read More …
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 Read More …
“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 Read More …
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 Read More …
Photography is the experience of making love to the moment, savouring it, caressing it with the lens, a moment of pleasant awareness. Every photography admits that they have messed up a photo opportunity by fumbling, over reacting, and maybe attempting to manipulate the moment, when they should have been interacting Read More …
It’s not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It’s their intimate relations with it. — Antoine D’Agata As a street photographer I think about “why?”, very often. It’s in our nature, we always want more. So, when I ask why do I take photos on the Read More …
A good photo should have qualities of art in it. What do I mean? If you take photos and want others to enjoy your work, your own unique way of looking should be somewhere in the photo. That’s what I mean. It’s been a while since I thought seriously about Read More …