Where have I been?
So, I have been away from my weekly blogging for some time. My distraction was wine, and a lot of it! Since March 2012 I have been studying to become a sommelier and, after several courses, exams,and many many tastings,…
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Edward Weston on “Portraits in Photography”
“…to reveal the individual before his camera, to transfer the living quality of that individual to his finished print…Not to make road maps but to record the essential truth of the subject; not to show how this person looks, but…
Photography is an art of observation, Elliott Erwitt
Every second of our day we are seeing things. There is a lot of visual information entering our heads all the time and our minds keep very busy processing that information. Indeed our minds never stop processing; it is active…
Who am I anyway? by Helen Levitt
When you take a photograph, you are expressing yourself, often unknowingly, and it shows in the final image. I am a zoologist and am certain that interest itself in the images I shoot, whether they are of wildlife or of…
Keep it or throw it? by Garry Winogrand
I visit Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia twice a year for my work as a research zoologist. Shooting images on Sable Island is just like shooting images on the street, except that there are no people, rather…
Seeing by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography can be about the camera and what the camera can do. But for me, the camera is there to catch what I see. The photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson is also all about seeing and he is a great inspiration…