Photo Review is a new program offered by Ralph Nordstrom Photography.  It is a way by which photographers can get their photographs reviewed by their peers.  This is unlike most photography sites in that the reviews are anonymous and moderated.  This encourages more honest and constructive feedback.  The results are published on the web in [...]

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Latourell Falls is one of many falls along the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge.  It is particularly beautiful because it takes a long slender down a spectacular basalt cliff.  I was shooting up there over the Memorial Day weekend and have these three different views of the falls to share.  Each is distinct [...]

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One thing I haven’t done at all really is play around with different ink jet papers.  My thinking is simple - there is so much to master in all the tools I use - Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. - and so many techniques to learn that adding one more variable is something I just wasn’t interested [...]

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We’ll be at the San Marcos Grand Summer Festival this Sunday, August 31, 2008.  Come on out and see us.  Here are a few of the photographs we’re working on:
Latourell Falls 1, 2 and 3
Tillamook Bay
We will also have some new images from Joshua Tree National Park.
So come on out and say Hi.  The show [...]

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When it comes to evaluating our own photographs we’re probably the worst ones to do so.  That’s not surprising because we’re so emotionally tied up in every aspect - the subject, the feelings we had when we got the shot, the work we’ve done on it in the digital darkroom.

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…, it is our contention that the self is more emphatically emphasized by ignoring it and concentrating on the [subject] itself.  Personal knowledge is gained by objectification, looking outward not inward. Life itself is the mirror in which the personal image is reflected.

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The Photographer as Artist - Creative Vocabulary
In this third article we continue our exploration of photography from the perspective of other artistic disciplines.  The first article was The Photographer as Artist - Introduction.  We introduced the idea that art stands on the Tripod of Artistry, three principles that are common to all arts.  The first [...]

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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

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Like Thoreau, who had gone to the woods because he “wished to live deliberately, to front only essential facts of life” and to “transact some private business with the fewest obstacles,” I embraced this endeavor, with some trepidation, to see if I could find what had drawn me so long ago to my art, and to [...]

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