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513 A Thought on Longevity

Church detail, Hart Square I’m working on a project incorporating both vintage photographs and images scanned twenty five years ago. There is something wonderful about holding a photograph that is one hundred years old. The prints that are coming close to their centennial are still viable and yet the scanned... Continue reading

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512 Common Things

Wheelwrights Shop, Hart Square “Hopper took something that was common and made it look uncommon.” These few words from a short film about artist Edward Hopper say so much about what makes great art. I just love it when a complex idea can be distilled into its essence and expressed... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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511 Did You Need a Name for that Project?

Knitting, Hart Square You created photographs, processed them, edited them spent three weeks sweating out the artists statement (you’ve read the last three weeks of blog posts haven’t you?) and the only thing holding you up is what you are going to call your project. You created a project name,... Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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510 Writing the Artists Statement (Part 3 of 3)

Pixelated Landscape, San Jose, CA Pay attention to the critique. Read the comments and figure out how to edit your writing so it makes sense. If you have to rewrite everything because there is no connection between your photographs and your writing accept the critique. You rewrite; every word if... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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509 Writing the Artists Statement (Part 2 of 3)

Imaginary Landscape, San Jose, CA Whiskey, wine and your writing are similar in that they do better after aging. Letting your words rest for a bit might quite possibly cause improvement. I’m not sure why it happens, but it is a mystery I have encountered again and again. Waiting a... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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508 Writing the Artists Statement (Part 1 of 3)

Imaginary Landscape, San Jose, CA We all have to write an artist's statement from time to time. Most photographers hate this part of the artistic process. We are visual artists, not writers, which is why we have cameras and communicate with images. I thought I might share how I approach... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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507 Playing Your Best Eleven

Kitchen Stove, Cerro Gordo, CA “I don’t play my eleven best. I play my best eleven.” – Knute Rockne When you create a photographic project your photographs are a team, not a collection of your greatest hits. There is a time and place for a retrospective collection of your best... Continue reading

Posted Mar 11, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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506 Hanging on to the Past

Plimsol Lines, Ferry Boat I’m still suffering through the Curse of the Archives (See posts 492 and 500) and struggling with the following thought; “If my old photographs are so bad, why am I hanging on to them?” Those really ugly bad photographs are taking up storage space I could... Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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505 Figure It Out in Post

Propellers, Dakota Creek Shipyard This is not a post extolling the virtues of repairing poorly seen images via obscure digital editing techniques. It is something quite different. Once you are facing your lightroom database with your latest photographic efforts in front of you, you scratch your head and wonder out... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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504 Is There a Right Way to Learn?

Maynton House, Academy Street At the two extremes, there are two particular ways to learn software. One is to learn the arcane transmutations of digital editing and then go out and look for ways to display your most recently acquired technical virtuosity. The other end of the spectrum is to... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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503 Wake up! I Have a Great Idea!

Number Ten Fairway I get my great ideas at a consistent time. Zero dark thirty AM. I will wake up way before dawn with an absolutely great idea, a breakthrough on a current project or the seed of an idea for a new project. I know this happens because my... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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502 Not a Dearth, a Plethora

From "The Inevitability of Numbers" (Dakota Creek Shipyard) For the past fifteen years or so, I have been creating photographic project folios of approximately ten to fifteen images. This size came about because it conveniently fit into the amount of time I had available to spend on my photography. I... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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501 Your Best Work Displayed the Best Way

Yates Mill, Raleigh An Old File processed with the latest software A few months back I wrote about completing work too quickly (483 Sometimes, I Move Too Fast. November 12, 2017). A conversation with a friend brought up another thought that makes so much sense that it will change the... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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500 Indiana Joe and the Curse of the Archives, Part II

Obscure outdoor detail (still at the Hearst Castle) Movies have sequels, why not a Blog Post? So let’s see how I get myself out of the mess I made last week. I think I just might double down here with more outrageousness. Bad photographs are a necessary part of everyone’s... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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492 Indiana Joe and the Curse of the Archives, Part I

Late Afternoon, Hearst Castle, Door, Stairs and Shadows Indiana Joe was a moniker hung on me by one of my co-workers when I showed up for work one winter day wearing my REI Expedition hat (a stylish fedora no longer available) and a brown leather jacket. (Trust me, this will... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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491 Being a Tourist

Late Afternoon, Hearst Castle My wife and I went out to California for a vacation. Naturally, I took my camera because, well, how can you not photograph in California? Once we got out there and did our family oriented vacation activities, I took my camera out once and wasn’t too... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2018 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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490 A Confluence of Blogging Topics

The Administration Building (Detail) Notre Dame, Indiana Year Seven of Postcards from the Creative Journey starts in a few days. Thank you so much for stopping by and reading these little comments and viewing a photographs. I may not know you by name, or how often you stop by, but... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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489 What Story Are You Telling?

Well, it is Christmas Eve Basilica of the Sacred Heart Your audience looks at a photograph. They are more concerned with what they see (the actual photograph) rather than the journey (the processing) it took to get there. As a photographer, you are very much aware of the effort you... Continue reading

Posted Dec 24, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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488 Well, If It Looks Photoshopped…

North Bay, Fog and Clouds We’ve all seen those photographs. Over sharpened, over saturated and over just about everythinged; photographs that actually hurt your eyes when you look at them. Sometimes people get carried away and just pummel their pixels far more than necessary. We cringe and move along. A... Continue reading

Posted Dec 17, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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487 Formal Portraits

Resting, Sun Yat Sen Garden Making portraits with a large format camera is much different than making portraits with a smartphone. The process of setting up a large camera and the attendant tasks required to make a photograph convey to the subject the importance of the action you are undertaking.... Continue reading

Posted Dec 10, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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486 A Beautiful Moment

A Moment in Seattle's Japanese Garden There is something magic about beauty that calms the mind and soul. One would think that we should have no shortage of beauty in art these days. If one is to believe the prophets of doom and apocalypse (also known as the nightly newscast),... Continue reading

Posted Dec 3, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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485 There Has To Be A Story Here

Memorial Cards Way back when, Rod Stewart released a rock and roll album (I told you it was a really, really long time ago) entitled, “Every Picture Tells a Story.” On that album, every song told a story. The concept has always been with me. Photographs should tell a story,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 26, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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484 Photographs of Nothing

Taking a break from weeding. Abandoned places have to have a story behind them. We see the moment at the time the photograph was made, but we don’t see the story behind why there is nothing there. I think this boils down to the level of abandonment we choose to... Continue reading

Posted Nov 19, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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483 Sometimes, I Move Too Fast.

The Choir's Stairway Speed is wonderful, but sometimes slowing down is necessary for you to understand just exactly what you have in terms of a photographic theme or project. By nature I am a project and goal oriented person. Tasks set before me (by others or myself) will be completed,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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482 “Rules of Art” Are Necessary

Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming The concept of “rules of art” is old, respected and is a requirement for such art as the Haiku, the Sonnet, the Fugue and just for fun, the Limerick and the “one liner“ joke. Every one of these artistic forms of expression is governed by a... Continue reading

Posted Nov 5, 2017 at Postcards from the Creative Journey

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