Great subject matter makes for great photos. Here’s how I go about exploring both conventional and unconventional subject matter to make more emotive and visually dynamic photos.
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What is subject matter in photography and how can you use composition to better define the subject in your photos? Many years of practical photography, and lots of research along the way, enables me to describe and illustrate this fundamental, yet quite profound image making consideration.
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic caused you to delay your travel plans? I know I've rescheduled flights several times since 2020. Will you travel overseas during 2023?
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While life is full of challenges I was determined to discover how living a creative life would enable me to follow my bliss. I felt sure happiness would follow.
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Photographs have a life unto themselves. My explorations have determined that our best photos do far more than merely representing the world they depict.
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A few years ago I co-ran a photography tour to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica. One of our excursions was to the abandoned Hektor Whaling Station at Port Foster, by the shores of Whalers Bay, on Deception Island in Antarctica.
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Travel isn’t always easy. My adventures include good and bad travel experiences, adding to the richness of my life and giving me wonderful stories to tell.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is an historically important site that explores the atrocities committed during the construction of the Siam-Burma Death Railway. My own visit and subsequent research really opened my eyes to the horrors associated with that infamous railway line.
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Have you ever heard the phrase everything old is new again? Let's explore that notion by looking back at my time playing in a surf band: The Swinging' Hi-Tones.
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By exploring notions of subject and meaning in photography I’ve been able to progress to more expressive and creative image making. Here’s what I’ve discovered along the way.
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Abstraction photography is great fun. Here's how a creative approach energized my passion for abstract photography.
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Despite the challenges that come our way, creative photography is the way back to a meaning rich and purpose driven life. After experiencing a severe intestinal tract infection in India, I travelled to Bangkok for treatment and then onto Bali to recover my health and renew my spirit.
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Here's how creative photography will enable you to make more visually dynamic and emotively powerful photos.
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Kodachrome was a popular, high quality slide film manufactured by Kodak. I’ve worked in the photography industry for over forty years, eight of them at Kodak. Here's my opinion of Kodachrome film and it’s amazing legacy in the history of photography.
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Situated on a rocky outcrop, just 11 km north east of Anuradhapura the Mihintale site is of enormous spiritual significance to the Sinhalese as the place where Buddhism originated in Sri Lanka. The Buddha statue at Mihintale in Sri Lanka is huge and great fun to photograph.
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Singapore is a modern, prosperous, clean and extremely safe island nation offering the tourist great cuisine, shopping, sightseeing and nature based experiences.
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This photo shows me and some travel buddies surrounded by Buddhist prayer flags overlooking Leh, the capital of Ladakh, in northern India.
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I’m convinced that most photographers place far too much importance on their camera kit and, as a consequence, fail to recognize and nurture their own unique, creative spirit. Here’s a quote from Albert Einstein, that I believe is of paramount importance to aspiring photographers.
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