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There are times when I have an image I like, but it still feels like something is missing. Like the whole image doesn’t necessarily stand alone. But on closer inspection, parts of it look like a complete composition and appeal to me. In those cases, a decisive crop can yield an image that feels complete. Especially when that crop yields a non-random shape, like a squ...
In my last post, I wrote about making multiple exposure images at the National Gallery of Art. I wanted to show another that I just finished processing as well, because it has a joyful feel to me. I’m not sure if it’s the colors or shapes, but it was really fun to work on.
...True story……..
A few weeks ago, I was visiting Washington, DC, and went to the National Gallery of Art with my camera. I love making multiple exposure abstracts from different paintings, putting them together to make my own art that looks nothing like the original. There was a large display by one contemporary artist (I forget who), and there was a mus...
What’s Hintology? Whats a Voxpop?
Hintology is a magazine dedicated to abstract photography, available in both online and printed editions. In addition to the magazine, they also publish online Voxpops. Yeah, I didn’t know what a Voxpop was either. It comes from vox popu...
Artists in any genre know that looking and seeing are totally different things. Looking is the process of merely being conscious on a very superficial level of what is in front of us. Seeing, on the other hand, starts with looking and then brings what falls onto our retinas into a deeper level of consciousness, a level where we think more deeply about what we see. A ...
