Why and How I Teach Photography Settings
I struggled to understand how to create storytelling image using any DSLR camera. Now you don’t have to struggle.
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Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 exhibit at the National Gallery of Art reveals the birth of a major and influential artist, photographer and film director (Shaft, a revolutionary film at the time, autobiographical The Learning Tree, and more). His... read more
Photo Class Info: Create Storytelling Images on a Budget Using DSLR Camera
Do you want to create storytelling, compelling, memorable images which convey a feeling, mood, thought and/or call to action?
You can do more with my inspiring resources and enthusiastic, humorous guidance.
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Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange was Full-Blooded Cherokee
DO you know this FAMOUS photo? “Migrant Mother,” during Great Depression, taken by Dorothea Lange. Seen in books, posters, clothes and so much more. Would this image be so widely accepted and famous if the truth known? The woman is 100%... read more
Early “Black is Beautiful” Photos by Kwame Brathwaite
Powerful, beautiful, mesmerizing historical photos. I loved the fashions, earrings and headdress, hair, the poses. The images are beautifully composed by a very talented photographer, Kwame Brathwaite. Most of all, LOOK at the beauty and pride in everyone’s... read more
Arnold Newman: One Hundred Portraits Book
Photos to take your breath away! Wow, again I wish I knew something about photography and especially photographers BEFORE I shot rock. Legendary photographer Arnold Newman captured and expressed people’s souls, let us into their private interiors, and said so... read more
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance in Harlem. Photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes collaborated in this historically moving book about daily life in Harlem in the early 1950s. IF you care about street scenes and family life, please check... read more
Beyond the Shadows Images of Holocaust without People
Why words and photos matter. Interesting timing, on the eve of Hanukkah, first battle over religious freedom. Judy Glickman Lauder’s revealing images in “Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception,” from Aperture, might make a person stop and... read more
Dennis Hellwig Natural World Traveller Photographer
Living in rather warm Los Angeles, ‘city of electric lights,’ to quote my fave punk band, X (I have a long history with them), it’s hard to see stars. I often look up and wish I could see more than a small handful of stars. A neighbor once drove us a... read more
Autumn Image of Gourds and Candles: Photoshop, Clip Art and My Photo
Autumn image I created using clip art, my photo and wondrous, powerful, fun Photoshop tools.
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Textures Red
Collage of warm, red images. Textures added in Photoshop.
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Photo Terms
Don’t want read a lot of words? Doesn’t make sense? Sign up for my super fun, easy and informative Photo Class. SHOWING images with various settings is far more effective than merely words. I’m a widely published, exhibited and acclaimed... read more