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…
Artists And Artisans: Luck Has Very Little To Do With It
"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…
Aqua Femina: An Ongoing Personal Project (NSFW)
"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…
High Honours in the PPOC National Loan Collection
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,…
Until That Hand Becomes Like Unto a Thing of Iron
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…
7 Lessons Learned Over the Past 7 Years in Photography
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…
Jay Terry MPA Now Accredited in Fantasy Illustration
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…
From Pencil and Pen to Pixels: This is Where it All Started
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…
The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Creativity
"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…
The Art of: Light Painting
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!),…
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