I took a week off from travel portraits for an article on Less Is More. Less is more also applies to portraits. After all, one does not want the surroundings to overshadow the subject, but to enhance the person and give him/her a sense of place. We have posted a new video on YouTube called […]
Travel Portraits, Part I
For the past couple of weeks, I shared some of my favorite film landscapes and referred to some people I’ve met along the way. In our workshops, we concentrate on landscapes, but often, our participants photograph people, usually fellow students. People can be put into a landscape or be a landscape in themselves. Composition is […]
The Rest of the Story, Part II—with Apologies to Paul Harvey
Last week, I relayed the stories behind some of my favorite photographs with the promise of more to come this week. An assignment in Phoenix (where it was 102-108) delayed this week’s post, for which I apologize. Quite a few years ago, I was photographing through the St. Vincent Grenadines, starting in St. Vincent and […]