Recently, I shot my first environmental street portrait. It was fun. The thing is, my original plan was to get an architectural street photo. Sometimes, you just have to grab opportunities when they present themselves. Embrace the unexpected and sometimes you get rewarded. Both environmental street portraits and architectural street photos are amalgams of two…
Street photography is one of the more exciting genres in photography. It forces us to get out of our comfort zone and go out in public to photograph random strangers. How will they react? How do I respond to that reaction? It’s about overcoming your anxiety and pushing those boundaries. It is also about the…
The CBS News program, “Sunday Morning”, had a great story this past Sunday (Nov. 29th). It’s about 20-year-old Canadian photographer Leah Denbok who has been photographing homeless people since she was 15. She’s really quite good. Her portraits are hauntingly beautiful and really give a face to the homeless who we often treat as invisible. …
When I decided to start blogging about photography and my images, I wasn’t sure where to start. And then I remembered the old cliché “Start at the beginning”. So here goes. This photo represents a number of “firsts” for me. It was first photo that I thought had the potential to be something worthwhile when…
