My agency, Aurora Photos, has just launched a first-class project titled Action:Reaction. The project starts with one photographer who conceives, shoots and delivers a photograph to Aurora with no restrictions on what that photograph might be. The photograph is then passed on to the next randomly selected photographer for their reaction in the form of [...]
This week, a lifeline appeared on the keywording front when Cradoc Software, makers of the much loved FotoBiz, released a product called fotoKeyword Harvester.
The Washington Post is doing an very good series on the global food crisis here, below is one of the pieces from that series. Ethanol is not a answer to our energy independence or the climate crisis, especially when it contributes to, in the words of the Washington Post, a “Silent Tsunami” of hunger worldwide. The [...]
The moon is radiant and clear bathing the ground in her pale light. Under a cloudless sky, the trade wind blows through the Koa forest and only the brightest stars are visible. Regulus and Leo take my vision, their light captivates me. Light that started its journey before I was born to reach this earth. [...]
Photo by, Richard A. Cooke III
The happy week has been a blur. Old friends, new friends, good food, good wine, good talk, and lots of laughter – the sum total of being alive and open and free. Tonight we gave a slide show of the images everyone created during the week, and the images sang [...]
4:30 am alarm. Dark outside. Sleep fills my mind and whispers for me to stay in bed. Come back, it says. You don’t really need to get up. You can stay in this comfortable bed. Wouldn’t you rather dream than take photographs this morning? Then something wakes up just enough to swing my legs off [...]
A long nondescript path rolls gently downhill through the moss filled forest where sound is dampened and all that remains is the hiss of the ocean wind through the treetops. Although they cannot yet be seen, the 2000-foot precipice diving down to the Pacific Ocean alerts my soul as I walk towards one of the [...]
I find my mind wandering even as I speak to what lies beyond the technique and into the meat of the whole reason we do this. The vision. If technique without vision is meaningless and vision without technique is blind, Photoshop is the ultimate conundrum!
Nothing. I have nothing. I have no camera, yet i have access to every camera i could ever need. Vision. I have nothing, but have access to a landscape and a world that excites me every time i see it. Empty. My vision feels empty until out on the rocks something turns my head. How [...]
Rekindling the Creative Spirit - the title and intent of our week on Molokai. Today, enough baco bits of wisdom have been sprinkled on the proverbial salad bar of life to float us for the rest of the seminar — and we are just getting warmed up! It is an interesting week for me, because [...]
There is rain on the window of this giant jet plane as we push back and roar into the sky. My eyes close in sleep before the plane reaches cruising altitude.
The first and second jobs I had out of Brooks Institute of Photography were directly due to Paul Liebhardt. While there were many instances during my first job in India that I couldn’t decide whether he was playing an elaborate joke with me as the unwitting victim, Paul set me on a trajectory that I have been following to this day.
A successful week in Ketchum/Sun Valley Idaho and the “Masala of Digital Imaging Techniques” workshop.
Tremendous story here by Marcus Bleasdale, VII and Media Storm on the terribly sad events happing in the Congo.
I will be teaching six photography workshops in 2008.
Last year I had the privilege to work with National Geographic photographer Flip Nicklin, videographer Jason Sturgis and whale researcher Jim Darling in Maui. Along with a few other dedicated people, they facilitate research forThe Whale Trust - an organization that supports marine research, education and conservation.
Nine years ago this January that I dropped everything and moved across the country to attend photo school. I can’t believe almost a decade has passed since that decision, for as I sat down to redesign kingstonimages the memory of pressing the shutter in almost every one of the frames is so clear it could have been yesterday.
For the first time since owning Lightroom, I have experienced a Lightroom catalog becoming corrupted.
The commotion started as soon as I surfaced. “GET ON THE BOAT NOW!” my frantic friends faces yelled at me as I lazily swam towards the swim step “SHARK!”.
For those who have never been underwater with a sea lion, imagine an aquatic puppy that is hyper, curious, gregarious, inquisitive and graceful.
