Once It’s Digital, It Doesn’t Matter
I had a chance last month to sit down and talk with my friend and photo mentor Don Giannatti. Don is a terrific photographer, but as digital started to put the squeeze on the industry, he moved to Project 52,…
A Student of What
A bunch of friends of mine were recently at a firearms training summit where they got to learn from and train with some of the best minds in the business, as well as train with each other in order to…
Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
The gunternet is all a-twitter over these pictures posted by Scottsdale Gun Club. Okay, the technique they show here is atrocious and probably lethal to the poor unfortunate models in the shot. The unwashed masses on Instagram are blaming the…
Losing The Narrative Thread
The photo story is all but gone. “Why is narrative such a difficult concept for young photographers to master? Because it is a concept that they are unaware of. It is something that they take for granted and do not…
Going Strapped
For someone who has carried around a camera with him for years (if not decades), I really doen’t like camera straps. I have friends who agonize over which strap is right for their camera, and me, I can’t stand the…
Residual Film
I’m in a few amateur/serious pro groups on social media, and the renewed interest in film photography is rather interesting. On the one hand, I get it. “On Photography” was the only thing that Susan Sontag ever wrote that made…