Archive for the 'philosophy' Category

Embracing failure

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

failure |ˈfālyər|
noun
1 lack of success : an economic policy that is doomed to failure | the failures of his policies.
• an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing : bad weather had resulted in crop failures.
• lack of success in passing an examination or test : exam failure.
• a grade that is not high enough to pass […]

The Light in the Air

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I was listening to a story on NPR the other day - and there was a guy being interviewed who referred to some early photography training he had by the well known depression era photographer Walker Evans.  A quote came out of this conversation that I just had to write down.   I suppose this […]

A pocket full of rulers

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Listening to Brooks Jensen’s podcast (LW0412 - Which ruler should we use?) brought to mind all sorts of concepts that I think about often when evaluating images.   He brings forth the question of how we measure the quality of photographs.  Is it against the historical masters or perhaps the pictures we see in a […]

Reflections on images of 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

This time of year is filled with stories of the ‘best of 2007′ everywhere, so I suppose it is only natural for a photographer to think back on the images created over the last year and if any hold particular significance above the rest. So I offer up to you my “Top 10″ […]

The way things are…according to us

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

One of the things that has always bothered me is mankind’s tendency to define the way things should be…according to us. Perhaps it is the result of watching too much sci-fi - but perhaps someday we will get a real kick in our perception pants. Out of the millions of species on […]