Competition Can Make You A Better Photographer
"Competition sparks excellence" ~ Lorne Greene Over the years, I've often heard that 'competition kills creativity'. In my personal experience, I've found the opposite is true. Now, I'm not talking…
"Competition sparks excellence" ~ Lorne Greene Over the years, I've often heard that 'competition kills creativity'. In my personal experience, I've found the opposite is true. Now, I'm not talking…
"There is no luck except where there is discipline." ~ Irish Proverb In my dealings with other photographers, I often hear the word 'luck' come up. "I just got lucky" being…
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference." ~ Aristotle Since very early in my photographic journey, I've had an interest in taking women's portraits in watery…
There's winning and then there's being honoured. The two are often interchanged although they can mean very different things. Such is the case with the National Loan Collection. For decades,…
Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange ... Seriously, somebody pinch me! As a life-long comic book geek, I could…
Beyond any of the lessons I've learned from my mentors and fellow pixel freaks, and all the "quotable quotes" regarding photography, there are a few thoughts that have come together in…
It has long been a ... fantasy ... of mine to create the kind of images that fired my imagination as a child. As I wrote in "From Pencil and…
In the long, long ago, before I started smashing pixels, I had a fascination with creating works of fantasy. As a child, I would draw, doodle, finger-paint ... you name…
"Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful." ~ Andy Hobsbawm You're in a rut. Your creativity is gone. You have no time. You're feeling uninspired. It's all been done…
So, it's the August long weekend and you have nothing to do ... Ok, I know that's absolutely impossible - with Ribfests happening across Ontario (I'll be all over London's Ribfest!),…