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Yup. I know. Everyone has heard of it. A lot of people viewed it. Some of us photographed it. A friend of mine and I joined other friends on a just built deck of a not finished house in …
Yup. I know. Everyone has heard of it. A lot of people viewed it. Some of us photographed it. A friend of mine and I joined other friends on a just built deck of a not finished house in …
This is my first and as far as I am concerned, only rant. This rant began in 1888 when George Eastman invented a disruptive technology—black and white roll film. He made roll film holders for practically every plate camera in …
A good client of mine has been planning on building a new home for quite some time now. I’ve been hired to document the process that, if all goes as planned, will take about eighteen months. The schedule will slip, …
My last post showed views inside and from the Gateway Arch in St. Louis made with a fisheye lens. This one is all portraits of the soaring stainless steel structure itself. This view is from ground level just in front …
Thursday, the day before the show at Creve Coeur Camera in St. Louis, Ryan Brown, Missouri’s professional photographer of the year for 2013, and I visited the Gateway Arch. As a personal challenge, I took only one lens, Sigma’s 15mm …
Friday and Saturday I’ll be presenting two one hour classes each day on behalf of Sigma Photo at Creve Coeur Camera in St. Louis. This event features speakers from major manufacturers every hour for the two days. Lens Exploration ~ …
A long time ago, that now seems to be only yesterday or maybe the day before, in the fall of 1993 there was this new trend in photography called digital. Eddie Tapp and I along with graphic designer Linda Adams-Wellin …
Happy new year! I am super excited to open my studio for a workshop during the first ever Photoshop World Conference to be held in my hometown, Atlanta, Georgia. The event’s producer Kelby Training, is offering a professional level studio …
When the company started in August of 1984, calling my business Ames Photographic Illustration made very good sense. Illustrative photographs had to be composited either completely in the camera, in the darkroom or with a combination of both. The comparison …
JOHN SZARKOWSKI: “Photography and the Mass Media” This was a commentary of the state of photography in 1967 with the advent of small format cameras and the ascendance of the photo editor. It is also a prescient look at photography …
