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Quotes: Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.” -Henri Cartier-Bre...
Post Secret: I’m A Photographer
I came across this secret on the Post Secret site the other day. I’m not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that a professional photographer doesn’t know what ISO and f-stops are, or t...
Photographers Rally for Rights
Thanks to Brian Auer for the heads up on this. Related posts Are Photographers A Threat? (2)...
Are Photographers A Threat?
Article by Bruce Schneier “What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are?” “Since 9/11, there has been an increasing ...
Artist Exchange, This Friday…
Just another reminder, this Friday the 6th at the Artist Xchange gallery in San Francisco, 8 of my original pen and ink drawings are hanging as part of their monthly opening reception featuring new wo...
Red Wings Win!!!
Red Wings Win! Red Wings Win!...
Pen & Ink Drawings @ the Artist Xchange
This coming Friday, June 6th at the Artist Xchange gallery in San Francisco, 8 of my original pen and ink drawings are hanging as part of their monthly opening reception featuring new work from local ...
Notebook: “The Window”
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only ...
Misconceptions About Night People
We have a medical problem. We’re as healthy as most. You won’t find us getting skin cancer from too much sunbathing. We’re lazy, dishonest, and trying to fool everyone because we wan...
5 Reasons To Buy Art
I do my best to keep my politics off the web and away from my art, but frankly, George W. Bush is an imbecile and a boob. That said, we here in the states did get a tax rebate thanks to him. There are...
Photoblog Call For Entries
FineArtPhotoblog.com, a side project I sort of fell backwards into, has been running for nearly four months now. Originally the creation of Brian Auer and ultimately featuring six other photographers ...
Ben Huang / Contact Gallery
Photo by Peng-Kuei Huang Peng-Kuei “Ben” Huang (Benny 4 Frames), my old friend from college, having recently attended the Magnum photography workshop in Toronto, was nominated for the Scot...
Notes: May 14th, 2008
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. - Vernon Law It’s never crowded along the extra mile. - Wayne Dyer No trumpets sound when the important d...
Fine Art Prints Update
After putting it off for entirely too long, I have finally gotten around to updating prints available through ImageKind. Currently all prints featured in the Fine Art Print Gallery are available throu...
Peng-Kuei “Ben” Huang, Exposure Gallery Vancouver
Some years ago when Ben and I were in school together we were given an assignment in some class one night. The teacher handed everyone digital cameras and said go shoot up the city for an hour, when w...
Jasper Sanidad Photography
I’ve known Jasper for some years now. A fellow film shooter, his work has come a long way since we first met and has settled into a style all his own. He’s just launched his new website @ ...
Framed Prints Up For Auction
Having put off a good spring cleaning for nearly 3 years I have found myself short on space and rather heavy on clutter. Knee deep in a good old fashioned house clearing I’ve decided to unload a...
Notes On Process
Since the shift to digital I suppose a fair amount of people out there have never used film, let alone been in the darkroom. I must admit that I was semi-inspired to write this by Brian’s post a...
Burt Glinn 1925-2008
Magnum photographer, Burt Glinn, passed away on April 9th. He will be missed. From the Magnum Blog: Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the United States Army between 1943 and 1946,...
Notes: April 3rd, 2008
We rode home that night from the Poleng Lounge in a sweet spring fog, our bellies warm filled with Japanese Whisky and un-pronounceable foods yelling along to Thin Lizzy on the radio with the windows ...
Dith Pran: 1942 - 2008
Dith Pran, photojournalist for The New York Times and subject of the 1984 film “The Killing Fields” died in New Brunswick, N.J. on Sunday at the age of 65. From The New York Times: “...
I Can Tell You’re Faking It…
Honestly I don’t understand why they bother with a model or a camera at all anymore. Related posts Photographs: Maggie (0) Content-Aware Image Re-Sizing (0) Untitled (1) Print Gallery Up...
When Photography Becomes A Crime
“The Met’s latest poster campaign urges Londoners who spot “unusual” activity to ring the police and let them know. Examples include someone taking pictures of CCTV cameras or ...
Philip Jones Griffiths, 1936-2008
“The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working...
Notes: March 19th, 2008
I live in a third floor walk-up closet, a veritable cracker box of eighth inch press board walls and no heat to speak of, remembering a recent February morning where the thermostat read 48 degrees. Re...
Notes: March 6th, 2008
Five nights a week at approximately 12:15 AM walking home through the Stockton tunnel staring at the sidewalk stepping over trash and puddles and needles and other city scenery while deeply entrenched...
Notes: March 4th, 2008
The woman at the coffee house never understands, too much already rolling around in her head I suppose, waiting in line with the rest of the addicts looking for the afternoon fix to keep things moving...
Notes: March 1st, 2008
It occurs to me, sitting on the sidewalk at some cafe, watching the rest of the world pass by, waiting for something, that I am unimportant, that I can sit here, watching, waiting, waiting for everyon...
Save Polaroid. Save the World…
From www.savepolaroid.com “On February 8, 2008 Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of the instant film that made the company a household name. This site will docum...
Polaroid to Stop Making Polaroids….
Yet another casualty of the digital assault that has virtually conquered the world of film as we once new it, Polaroid has announced that they will discontinue the manufacture of the instant film that...
