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"Surrender To Your Mediocrity”

What now??!! That doesn’t sound like a good thing. And yet it was advice given in a painting course that I’m taking. And the advice is, I feel, actually quite good. Excellent even. It just depends on how you interpret the statement. Do take note, though, that it says to surrender to your mediocrity and not to mediocrity in general. Am I spli...


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Looking For Minimalism

I had been feeling a bit uncreative. That, of course, happens. And then I happened to attend an online talk about minimalist photography. I enjoyed the idea of using blocks of color and shape to achieve a minimalist look. So on a trip to the museum, I combined several multiple burst exposures to attain this image.

I usually try to avoid going out with...


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When AI Goes Off The Rails

Everyone knows about the increasing role that AI seems to be playing in our everyday lives, whether we like it or not. However, not everyone has heard of AI “hallucinations”. An AI hallucination occurs when the AI engine just plain makes up BS and acts like it is fact. The little bit I know about it is that it has become particularly problematic in the legal world, w...


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It’s A New Year!

Well, 2025 has come and gone, and it’s a new year. They do seem to come and go more rapidly each time around. I don’t know about anyone else, but I have made a number of resolutions, much of which has to do with my art practice, both photography and painting. One of them is to get back to posting here more regularly.

Recently, while walking through the...


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Two For One

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...


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