I have often championed the idea of not staying indoors when the weather turns messy. I’m not talking about going out in extreme conditions, but a little rain or snow never hurt anyone. Doing photography in bad weather can result in some unique and dramatic images. But if getting rained on doesn’t constitute your idea […]

If you’ve ever heard people talk about photos that tell a story, you may have wondered to yourself exactly how one tells a story with a single photo. It’s a logical thing to ponder; of course you can’t embody exposition, complication and resolution in one image, but a single image can definitely convey character, setting […]

Commenting on the Hungarian-French photographer known as Brassai (Gyula Halasz), Henry Miller proclaimed that he was a man “equipped with no ordinary eyes.” According to Miller, Brassai’s “sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in” his “photographic exploration” of Paris’ “people, places and things.” That’s high praise indeed, but Henry Miller’s assessment of […]

Time is one of a photographer’s most valuable resources, so it makes sense that you would use it efficiently and not engage in activities that are only going to diminish the amount of time you have to spend on this magnificent craft. There are numerous poor uses of time that we could talk about — […]